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Madeline Singas, Nassau County’s new acting district attorney, stopped by Herald Community Newspapers’ Garden City office last Thursday for a discussion with editors and reporters about the views, goals and strategies she brings to the job. The conversation touched on topics from gun violence to illegal drugs, police practices, public corruption and what Singas sees as the need for “smart prosecution,” from crime-prevention strategies to alternatives to jailing young, non-violent offenders.
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By Brian Racow
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2/12/15
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One of Long Island’s largest nonprofit substance-abuse treatment agencies received three grants this winter that officials said will help them teach young people about the dire consequences of …
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By Julie Mansmann
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1/21/15
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School-aged children can use someone to talk to. Someone they can share their thoughts, goals and fears with who genuinely cares and wants what’s best for them.
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1/15/15
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The Rockville Centre Youth Council held a meeting at the library of South Side High School on Dec. 15 to discuss applying for a Drug Free Communities Grant. These federal grants are meant to help local coalitions reduce substance abuse among young people.
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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12/17/14
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The Long Beach Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking received a $27,500 grant to mentor the Rockville Centre Youth Council. The grant came from the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.
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9/24/14
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Patients should stop thinking of powerful pain medications like Oxycontin and Vycodin as slightly stronger versions of Tylenol and Advil. Rather, they should think of them as “heroin pills.”
That’s according to Dr. Andrew Kolodny, president of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing and chief medical officer for Phoenix House, a national, nonprofit drug treatment agency.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/18/14
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The Rockville Centre Police Department is asking village residents to participate in National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Sept. 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at RVCPD headquarters located at 34 …
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9/17/14
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Every day, 2,500 teens across the country, ages 12 to 17, get high off prescription drugs, and 70 percent of them obtain their narcotics from family members or friends –– most often by swiping them from bathroom medicine cabinets, according to Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/10/14
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The Rockville Centre Youth Council is offering a distracted and drunken driving education program for students as part of the annual Walkathon and Family Fun Fitness Fair organized by the RVC Drug, Alcohol and Violence Task Force.
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9/3/14
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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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