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Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano recognized three students from South High School last week for the anti-drug messages they produced, which took top honors in a countywide contest.
Junior …
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By Brendan Murray
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2/11/15
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One of Long Island’s largest nonprofit substance-abuse treatment agencies received three grants this winter that officials said will help them teach young people about the dire consequences of …
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By Julie Mansmann
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1/21/15
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School-aged children can use someone to talk to. Someone they can share their thoughts, goals and fears with who genuinely cares and wants what’s best for them.
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1/15/15
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An Elmont couple was arrested on Nov. 12 for allegedly selling heroin between Sept. 24 and Oct. 2, with four of the transactions occurring in Valley Stream, two of them done with the couple’s …
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By Brendan Murray
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11/19/14
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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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Jeffrey Reynolds, the executive director of the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, said he will be resigning from the organization at the end of June to become the president and chief executive officer of the Family and Children’s Association, a move that Reynolds said was “the most difficult decision I’ve made in my life.”
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By David Weingrad
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5/28/14
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