A Bronx man was arrested on three charges, including driving drunk and hitting a bicyclist, on Sunday at 7:08 p.m. in North Woodmere, according to police. more

fter John Faulhaber’s son, Theo, died at age 35 of a heroin overdose at his desk in his Manhattan office, Faulhaber, an Atlantic Beach resident, realized he had to do something to help prevent this from happening to others. more

A free overdose prevention seminar about how to administer Narcan, a lifesaving antidote to the fatal effects of an opiate overdose, will be held on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Five Towns Community Center at 270 Lawrence Ave. in Lawrence. 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

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 … more

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. more

Lawrence Yacht & Country Club members hosted several members of the Wounded Warrior Project for a day of golf, tennis and fishing at the village owned and operated facility in Lawrence on Sept. 21. more

I can’t explain precisely how I determined which college I would attend. The process was more art than science. more

Missy Miller watched the State Senate debate on June 20 from her Atlantic Beach home for the same reason she has been advocating for medical marijuana: her 14-year-old son Oliver was having severe seizures, and instead of staying in Albany where they had traveled to see the debate in person, they had to return a day earlier. more