As millions of people nationwide lose their jobs amid the coronavirus outbreak, and millions more shelter in place to avoid infection, anxieties are likely at an all-time high. But in Nassau County, …
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By Peter Belfiore
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4/13/20
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In the years after Alison Eriksen graduated Oceanside High School in 2004, several of her former classmates struggled with drug addiction and mental health issues. Some of them died of overdoses or suicide.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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3/5/20
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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" . . .
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12/5/19
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Town of Hempstead officials called for a ban on the sale of flavored e-liquids used in electronic vape devices at a Town Board meeting Sept. 3.
Elected officials and health experts said the …
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By Bridget Downes
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9/12/19
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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
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4/21/16
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Oceanside confronted a serious problem on June 23 with a forum on drug addiction and abuse at the Oceanside Library
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7/8/15
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There were 35 drug overdoses in Long Beach last year. Six were fatal, and four of those were attributable to heroin.
In light of the apparently growing heroin problem on Long Island, the city held …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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3/19/14
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If your teenage children start talking about “Molly,” they’re probably not talking about a new friend from school, but a drug that is making its way through the Nassau County drug culture, …
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Howard Schwach
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4/5/13
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At a meeting of the Island Park Civic Association last week, Detective Pamela Stark, of the Nassau County Police Department’s Community Affairs Department, spoke to parents about the prescription …
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10/17/12
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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.
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By Shannon Koehle
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6/1/12
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