Long a Nexus of Rx Drug Abuse, Staten Island Now Faces Heroin's Scourge

Published February 9, 2014

Long a nexus of Rx drug abuse, Staten Island now faces heroin's scourge
Except as risky as painkillers are to abuse, heroin's an even trickier roll of the dice. "They don't know what they're doing," says Fusco, who runs the Dynamite Youth Center in Brooklyn and its residential treatment center in update Fallsburg New York …
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New wave of heroin claims Hoffman and others
Most heroin addicts at Maryhaven, a substance abuse treatment center in Columbus, Ohio, got hooked on prescription painkillers like oxycodone after sustaining some type of injury, said Paul H. Coleman, the center's president and CEO. When the cost of …
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Experts can finally foresee an end to smoking
David Ozanich of Brooklyn smokes outside the Live Bait bar in New York after a city-wide ban on smoking in bars and restaurants went into effect. / AP FILE PHOTO. Written by. Mike Stobbe. Associated Press. Filed Under. Local News. ADVERTISEMENT.
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A progressive Rx? No, a practical one
The hospital crisis in Brooklyn — that is, the inevitable but politically unpopular downsizing of Long Island College Hospital, Interfaith Medical Center and other facilities — is the proving ground where de Blasio can make good on his campaign …
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