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"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” So began Hunter S. Thompson’s 1972 drug-addled novel “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" . . . more

12/5/19

The community drug awareness panel included from far left Rabbi Kenneth Hain, Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender, Rivka Drebin, Karen Bayer, Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, Rabbi Dov Silver, Shlomo Katz and Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder.

Five Towns aims to begin a discussion on substance abuse

Connecting religion, culture and the universal love parents have for their children were the focal points of a nearly two-hour community meeting that packed Congregation Beth Sholom’s synagogue in Lawrence on Monday as Five Towns residents listened attentively and through index cards asked several questions of the assembled panel who tried to the address a challenging question: “Our kids know about drugs. Do we?” more

By Jeff Bessen | 7/19/18

Obamacare’s deleterious effect on the war on drugs

Not only is Obamacare a poor health care plan from a policy perspective, but now many doctors and health care professionals believe that it is contributing to one of the worst epidemics facing this nation, our state and Long Island: opioid addiction more

4/21/16

Guidance toward making the right choices

It’s 2013 and the teenage drug epidemic has reached an all-time high, according to the website Drugfactsweek.drugabuse.gov run by the National Institute of Health. More than 1,400 high school students die each year from drug-related causes, based on its statistics. more

Lauren Dana | 10/30/13

Roxicodone, oxycodone and OxyContin have similar properties and are used to treat moderate to severe pain and anxiety but are also abused by those seeking relief from stress.

For kids, drug abuse begins at home

Despite all the education and the warnings about how drugs — even those that are legally prescribed — can be harmful if abused, young people continue to wander down potentially disastrous paths, according to Kerri Ann Murphy, an Atlantic Beach resident and a registered nurse at the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow. more

ANN E. FRIEDMAN | 3/9/11

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