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Wendy Tepfer, front, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center, is among the leaders sponsoring the first Bellmore-Merrick Drug Takeback Day on Sept. 27. She was joined at a meeting of the Bellmore-Merrick Heroin Task Force last Friday by, from left, Donna Nogid, legislative assistant to Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg; Pat Gleiberman, young adult librarian at the Bellmore Memorial Library; and Lisa Finn, director of clinical services and community outreach for Phoenix House.

Bellmore-Merrick Parent Center, heroin task force sponsoring drug takeback

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. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/10/14

Addiction counselor Karen Palmiero spoke at a Phoenix House-hosted opiate seminar at the Merrick Library on June 18.

Battling Nassau’s heroin crisis

“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 … more

By Casey Pinner | 6/25/14

Albany's unfinished business, Part II

Last week we highlighted some of the work we think the New York Senate and Assembly have left incomplete as they head toward the end of this legislative session on June 19. We said that … more

6/12/14

An overdose prevention kit, distributed at a Nassau County Narcan training session, comprises two latex gloves, a face shield for rescue breathing, a nasal syringe, a pre-filled vial of Naloxone and a certificate of completion.

More than just Narcan

When I attended a Narcan training session at the East Meadow Public Library on May 28, I knew I was going to be leaving with a kit equipped with the drug that prevents deadly overdoses. What I did not expect was to be inundated with information about addiction from a handful of experts, or to hear stories from people whose lives have been forever changed by heroin. more

By David Weingrad | 6/4/14

Heroin, turning teens into Gollums

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. more

4/24/14

Major crime and quality of life issues were discussed at a public safety forum on April 9 at the East Meadow Public Library, hosted by Nassau County Legislature Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves, who, pictured above, addressed the dozens in attendance. In the front row, from left, sat 1st Precinct Commanding Officer Sean McCarthy, Seventh Precinct Commanding Officer Joseph Barbieri, Second Precinct Deputy Commanding Officer John Johnsen and First Precinct Commanding Officer Daniel Flanagan.

Residents, police talk safety

Dozens of local residents gathered in the East Meadow Public Library on April 9 to discuss a wide array of crime, safety and quality of life issues plaguing the East Meadow and Salisbury communities in recent months. more

By David Weingrad | 4/16/14

Substance-abuse experts say the legalization of marijuana in Colorado is making drug education more difficult. Many teens, they say, now underestimate the dangers that the drug presents.

Drug education getting tougher in Nassau County after budget cuts

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 … more

By Anishaa Kumar | 3/27/14

It's time to legalize marijuana in New York

Like a tsunami, a great social and cultural wave is moving west to east in this country, favoring the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana. more

1/16/14

A 2009 national survey on drug use found that prescription drugs are the second-most abused type of drug in the U.S.

Prescription drugs are a problem

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 … more

By John Maher | 10/2/13

Drug epidemic is subject of local forum

East Meadow is hardly immune to the prescription-pill and heroin epidemic that is plaguing Long Island. Seven local residents in their early 20s have died from overdoses since January. more

By Shannon Koehle | 6/1/12

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