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Rick Whelan, chief of the Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau at the Nassau County district attorney’s office, took a brief breather after the news conference. Only minutes earlier, he had stood beside D.A. Kathleen Rice and County Executive Ed Mangano to announce that a team of federal and local...
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By Scott Brinton
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12/22/14
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A Long Beach man was sentenced to four years in state prison on Thursday, after he plead guilty to selling heroin to undercover narcotics detectives at a Shore Road apartment building last …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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12/19/14
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Nassau County police arrested a mother and her son on Wednesday after they allegedly sold heroin to an undercover agent at their Long Beach home.
Police said that Kelly Cavanagh, 53, and her son, …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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11/28/14
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Nassau County will receive a $200,00 grant to further its fight against Long Island’s heroin crisis. The money, secured by State Sens. Kemp Hannon and Jack Martins, will be used to assist police in investigating fatal heroin and opioid overdoses.
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By David Weingrad
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11/5/14
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Long Beach police arrested a man on Monday for his alleged role in a near-fatal overdose in the city.
Police Commissioner Mike Tangney said police arrested 30-year-old James Walsh and charged him …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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10/29/14
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Patients should stop thinking of powerful pain medications like Oxycontin and Vycodin as slightly stronger versions of Tylenol and Advil. Rather, they should think of them as “heroin pills.”
That’s according to Dr. Andrew Kolodny, president of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing and chief medical officer for Phoenix House, a national, nonprofit drug treatment agency.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/18/14
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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.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/10/14
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“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 …
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By Casey Pinner
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6/25/14
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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 …
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6/12/14
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A Long Beach police officer saved the life of a young man who overdosed last week by administering the live-saving drug Narcan.
On Thursday, May 22, just after 5 p.m., Long Beach police officers …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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5/29/14
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