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Group seeks heroin detox help for teens from PTA, state
Photo credit: SCPD | An undated Suffolk County police evidence photo of heroin confiscated by police in Smithtown.
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Teenagers have no place to go on Long Island to detox from heroin and other drugs, so a Suffolk group is pushing for a law to provide hospital beds and wants support for the measure from the state's highest coalition of parents and teachers.
The request for support, to be brought before the state's PTA convention this weekend by a Sachem schools group, also calls for a change in state law...
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