The chances that a young person will become addicted to alcohol or drugs are less than 1 percent –– if use of a substance begins after the frontal lobe of the brain is fully developed, which … more

Long Beach police broke up an underage drinking party on Harding Avenue last Saturday after an officer responded to a noise complaint. According to the Police Department, the officer observed … 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

Starbucks’ application to obtain a license from the State Liquor Authority for the coffee chain’s 101 West Park Ave. location was countered with strong opposition, but the SLA’s full board … more

“I’ve learned a lot about myself in the past five years,” former professional basketball player Chris Herren said. “And I truly believe that we’ve gone wrong with the way we educate our children about addiction. I think we want to focus on the last day, show them pictures of the worst day, and we forget about the first day.” 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

On Monday, Nov. 9, the Rockville Centre School District will be hosting a Narcan training seminar to teach people how to administer the drug that can stop an opioid overdose. Narcan is a special … more

The teenager, a student at Calhoun High School, had a “severe case of alcohol poisoning,” said Calhoun Principal Nicole Hollings in an email to parents on June 12. He drank at a “large gathering” of Calhoun seniors in the woods between Brookside School and the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Hollings wrote. more

How easy is it for a juvenile to buy alcohol in a store without showing identification to the clerk? more