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To help save lives and combat the heroin epidemic, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced on September 29 several free overdose prevention seminars for residents, including one that will be hosted by Oceanside Middle School on Thursday, Nov. 20.
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10/1/14
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Valley Stream residents concerned about the rising rates of opioid use and overdoses will have a chance to learn about how to respond in emergency situations.
At least 87 people died in Nassau …
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By Brendan Murray
bmurray@liherald.com
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10/1/14
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A Valley Stream man is facing three felonies after he was arrested for allegedly selling heroin to a woman in Lynbrook on Sept. 23.
Noor Mayan, 30, of Valley Stream, was observed in what was …
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10/1/14
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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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When I attended a Narcan training session at the East Meadow Public Library on May 28, I knew I was going to be leaving with a kit equipped with the drug that prevents deadly overdoses. What I did not expect was to be inundated with information about addiction from a handful of experts, or to hear stories from people whose lives have been forever changed by heroin.
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By David Weingrad
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6/4/14
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A North Merrick teenager overdosed on heroin on Thursday, May 15, around 8 p.m., according to officers from the Nassau County Police Department’s 1st Precinct.
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5/16/14
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Larry Glenz, a retired Lynbrook High School history teacher, remembers the good times, when his son Kevin was healthy, before he became a heroin addict whose only thought, awake and asleep, was shooting up.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/14/14
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