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As heroin use rises, so does concern about it

Calls to treatment centers and crisis hotlines about heroin abuse continue to climb on Long Island, according to experts who said many of the calls are from parents who fear their children are using the drug.

More than a dozen such calls came into the crisis hotline Monday at Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, one of the crisis hotlines highlighted in a Sunday Newsday...

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