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“If I could have turned the switch to just end my life, I would have done it, guaranteed,” said Casey C., a former heroin addict, at a Phoenix House-sponsored addiction seminar at the …
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By Casey Pinner
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6/25/14
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Jeffrey Reynolds, the executive director of the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, said he will be resigning from the organization at the end of June to become the president and chief executive officer of the Family and Children’s Association, a move that Reynolds said was “the most difficult decision I’ve made in my life.”
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By David Weingrad
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5/28/14
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I don’t presume to fully understand heroin addiction. I can’t imagine the demons that lurked in the mind of acclaimed actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. I’ve never used heroin, and I never will.
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4/24/14
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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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There were 35 drug overdoses in Long Beach last year. Six were fatal, and four of those were attributable to heroin.
In light of the apparently growing heroin problem on Long Island, the city held …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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3/19/14
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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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Following the death of a Long Beach man last month from what police suspect was a drug overdose, the city will host a panel discussion next week in an effort to educate the community about drug abuse …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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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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