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On Saturday, April 26, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., 30 locations throughout Nassau County will serve as "drop-off" sites for individuals to dispose of prescription drugs.
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4/23/14
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With heroin claiming the lives of hundreds in Nassau and Suffolk counties over the past two years, police are stepping up enforcement measures. In February, nine were arrested in the so-called …
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By Anishaa Kumar
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3/27/14
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Marijuana legalization is all the rage these days, much to my chagrin. I oppose it. Always have. Always will.
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3/6/14
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Like a tsunami, a great social and cultural wave is moving west to east in this country, favoring the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana.
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1/16/14
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When the news broke last month that a comprehensive new medical study indicated that cholesterol-lowering drugs should be prescribed for millions more Americans between the ages of 40 and 70, I didn’t believe it.
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12/5/13
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It’s 2013 and the teenage drug epidemic has reached an all-time high, according to the website Drugfactsweek.drugabuse.gov run by the National Institute of Health. More than 1,400 high school students die each year from drug-related causes, based on its statistics.
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Lauren Dana
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10/30/13
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Prescription drug abuse in the United States has spiked dramatically in the past few years, and Nassau County is no exception.
Illegal use of prescription drugs has become so widespread across the …
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By John Maher
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10/2/13
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High school seniors will soon face a potentially life-altering decision only days before they graduate –– to drink or not to drink on prom night.
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6/13/13
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It’s impossible to know what cure will go undiscovered, what useful invention never devised, what art uncreated, what science unimagined, what wisdom unuttered because a boy’s or girl’s potential was submerged in vodka bottles or drowned in cans of beer.
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4/18/13
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When I heard that President Obama was playing golf with Tiger Woods two weekends ago, I wondered if the event might be interpreted as a kind of presidential pardon.
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2/28/13
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