Cop reaches out to educate kids on drugs
Photo credit: Newsday/Jessica Rotkiewicz | Pamela Stark, Nassau County Police Department Detective of Community Affairs, talks to students at Mercy First about the dangers of prescription drugs and other drugs, as part of a county-wide effort to alert kids to the problems associated with the use of prescription opiates in Syosset. (Jan. 23, 2012)
As the use of illegal narcotics and the abuse of prescription medicines rises on Long Island, Nassau police have ramped up their drug awareness and education program for students, teachers and parents.
The face of the program is Det. Pamela Stark, who two years ago had to push school districts to allow her to visit, but now fields almost daily requests from schools and community groups.
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