LAMAR ODOM LOSSES TWO FRIENDS, A WEEK APART EACH OTHER ALLEGEDLY FROM DRUG RELATED PROBLEMS

Just days after the death of Lamar Odom's friend Jamie Sangouthai, Odom is suffering the loss of another close friend Bobby Heyward.

Bobby Heyward, age 30, died on Saturday. No cause of death has yet been announced by the L.A. County Coroner's office.

Odom, Heyward and Sangouthai were reportedly all friends. Sangouthai died on June 14 -- allegedly from a drug related disease ... a flesh-eating disease caused by dirty needles. 

The exact terms are necrotizing fasciitis -- bacterial skin infection -- and chronic intravenous narcotism -- IV drug abuse ... according to the L.A. County Coroner. 

The Coroner says Sangouthai went to the hospital for the infected arm, but the disease spreads quickly and often becomes life-threatening.

Sangouthai -- who appeared with Lamar and Khloe Kardashian on their reality show -- died Sunday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 37 years old....