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The Long Beach Medical Center runs both a drug detoxification unit and a methadone maintenance clinic to help patients kick addictions to heroin and other drugs. Above are, from left, Dr. Sidney Hughes, the detox unit's medical director, nurse Lori Bochner, nurse Taranjeet Singh and Daniel Balzano, a unit support aide.
From painkillers to heroin addiction
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 … more
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Tom, a recovering heroin addict, meets with Art Rosenthal, left, executive director of the Confide drug-treatment center in Rockville Centre.
Heroin: The road to Hell
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. more
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Assemblyman David McDonough, right, chairman of the Assembly Minority Task Force on Crime in Our Communities, met with 20 lawmakers, law-enforcement officials, drug-treatment specialists and educators at the Levittown Library on Thursday to discuss Nassau’s growing heroin epidemic. Among the officials was Assemblyman Thomas McKevitt.
Heroin, a scourge that crosses all lines
"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. more
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