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Long Island police find heroin trade hard to curb

Across Long Island, law enforcement agencies are fighting a homegrown heroin market that is poisoning families, filling jail cells and ending lives. Some of the dead are just boys and girls.

For police, the fight has many fronts, which move like a war of insurgency. Undercover detectives trail suburban teens down the Long Island Expressway to try to identify their New York City suppliers....

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