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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
What would you do if someone were overdosing on heroin or opiate-based painkillers right in front of you? How can you tell the difference between someone who’s just high or someone who may need … more
“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
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
Heroin addicts describe their first high as the ultimate escape, a 20-hour fix starting with a pleasure rush that races from the tip of the tongue throughout the body and steadily progresses toward hallucinations that transfix a user in a state of semiconscious euphoria. more
They line up every day inside an off-white office resembling a trailer across the street from the Long Beach Medical Center: two neat rows of average-looking people, waiting patiently, as if they are there to buy a cup of coffee from the local deli. But they are there to save their lives. more
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