"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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Long Beach Aware will receive $625,000 in funds over five years to assist the Oceanside SAFE Coalition in involving and engaging the Oceanside community in preventing substance abuse among youth.
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11/20/19
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I will have been sober for exactly 32 years this week. It’s a joyful anniversary, one that I’m sharing only to inspire others who may need to quit drinking but don’t think they can.
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8/30/19
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I didn’t attend many funerals in my childhood. One that I recall was for the father of a close childhood friend.
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By Andrew Malekoff
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5/3/19
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Once upon a time, the world around us moved at a modest pace. There were no fancy smartphones, laptops, E-ZPass, car navigation systems or ATMs. People bought daily newspapers and magazines . . .
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2/22/19
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Society has long looked down on mental health patients, according to Andrew Malekoff, executive director of the Roslyn Heights-based North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center. So it has been all too easy for insurance companies . . .
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1/24/19
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Spurred in part by a study that linked the increased use and abuse of prescription opioids to a rise in pain-pill related poisonings among young children, Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito …
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By Peter Belfiore
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4/19/18
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Multiple law enforcement units collaborated on the arrest of eight people for drugs and a gun in Inwood on Aug. 22, police said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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8/23/17
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“It comes in waves.”James Miotto, Island Park’s fire chief and an emergency medical worker, said the Fire Department gets called to the scene of a heroin overdose as frequently as …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
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8/11/17
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“It comes in waves.”
James Miotto, Island Park’s fire chief and an emergency medical worker, said the Fire Department gets called to the scene of a heroin overdose as frequently as four …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
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8/10/17
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