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Final part in a series.
Why does anyone -- let alone a young person full of life -- start snorting or shooting heroin, an opiate known to cause near-instant addiction and possibly a lifetime of suffering?
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Scott Brinton
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8/17/10
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Part six in a series.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice made a name for herself with her tough-as-nails prosecution of drunken drivers. Now, as the use of heroin has spread on Long Island, it's little surprise that the headstrong D.A. is taking a hard line.
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Sari Zeidler and Deirdre Krasula
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6/17/10
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Part six in a series.
Happening upon this seemingly abandoned lot might leave you with the feeling that you're about to witness a late-night drug deal, but in fact, you would have stumbled on one of the places that heroin dealers and addicts fear most.
It's the heart of the Nassau County Police Department's Heroin Task Force. Much of what happens here is kept under wraps. Police asked that the address be kept confidential. The following is what authorities can share.
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Sari Zeidler and Deirdre Krasula
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6/2/10
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Heroin addicts describe their first high as the ultimate escape, a 20-hour fix starting with a pleasure rush that races from the tip of the tongue throughout the body and steadily progresses toward hallucinations that transfix a user in a state of semiconscious euphoria.
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4/23/10
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They line up every day inside an off-white office resembling a trailer across the street from the Long Beach Medical Center: two neat rows of average-looking people, waiting patiently, as if they are there to buy a cup of coffee from the local deli.
But they are there to save their lives.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/14/10
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Part three of an ongoing Herald series on heroin addiction.
Mary dressed in a well-worn sweater and jeans for her interview in a conference room overlooking the bay at Long …
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By Scott Brinton
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4/2/10
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Updated: 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Police have arrested a North Merrick School District custodian, Joseph Latona, 27, and charged him with sale and possession of heroin.
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Sari Zeidler and Scott Brinton
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3/17/10
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Heroin had coursed through Joe's veins for more than 12 months when he arrived at the St. John's University training camp as a freshman attacker on the powerhouse Red Storm lacrosse team.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/3/10
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"This isn’t cocaine. This isn’t a Saturday-Sunday drug. It’s 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year," Bill Flanagan, the Nassau County Police Department’s second deputy commissioner, told the assembly of 20 elected leaders, law enforcement officials, drug-treatment specialists and educators at Levittown Public Library on Thursday.
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Scott Brinton
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1/21/10
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Members of the Assembly Minority Task Force on Crime in Our Communities will hold a public forum with Nassau County police, prosecutors, elected officials and educators on Thursday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Levittown Library. The task force will tackle the growing use of heroin in Nassau County and will discuss programs and technology that are available to combat the sale and distribution of this illegal drug.
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1/20/10
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