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Educating parents essential to fight heroin addiction

Joye Brown

Newsday columnist Joye Brown Joye Brown

Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006.

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The Smithtown school district's mandated heroin education-for-prom swap is an idea worth replicating across Long Island.

The premise of the program - which appears to be the first of its kind on Long Island - is deceptively simple.

Parents of seniors must attend a meeting where they hear about everything from what heroin does to adolescent brains to what's being done in the community...

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