I will have been sober for exactly 32 years this week. It’s a joyful anniversary, one that I’m sharing only to inspire others who may need to quit drinking but don’t think they can. more

Every addictive drug works by increasing dopamine in the brain, Dr. Stephen Dewey explained to a packed auditorium at South Side High School on March 20. more

Hundreds of masks made by a dozen organizations were on display at the Rockville Centre Youth Council’s event, where their incoming officers were also inducted for next year. In partnership with … more

Ninety percent of Rockville Centre students think smoking is wrong. Seventy-one percent think smoking marijuana is wrong. But only 57 percent of those in grades eight to 12 think drinking regularly is wrong. Though less than 3 percent of those surveyed said they would look cool if they smoked, nearly 30 percent indicated there’s a good chance they would be considered cool if they drank. more

“Any time these kids are off from school,” said Nick DeLuca, youth detective for the Rockville Centre Police Department, “days when they don’t have to be up early in the morning, it’s an … more

New evidence has come to light in the court case involving Rockville Centre police officer Anthony Federico, who stands accused of assaulting a 25-year-old man and later falsifying … more

It was 1990. Then five-year village cop Charles Gennario was first to respond to a report of an overturned vehicle on Sunrise Highway near the border of Lynbrook and Rockville Centre. When he got … more

Stinger’s Irish Pub, a popular Rockville Centre bar for 29 years, has closed amid charges of underage drinking and other violations at the establishment. Longtime Rockville Centre owner Dave … more

This Christmas, will a new Smith & Wesson be under your tree? more

The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant. Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up. And, he has found, it isn’t pretty. more