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Smithtown grapples with rise in teenage heroin use
Quick ReadTeens have been snorting or shooting heroin in alarming numbers across Long Island in recent years.
Photo credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara | Heroin addict Michele DiBartolo in her room at Outreach House II, a rehabilitation center in Brentwood. (Sept. 28, 2009)
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Michele DiBartolo drove up to Walgreen's on Smithtown's Main Street, just a block or two from the white pillars of the century-old Town Hall. Slipping out of the driver's seat of her 1994 Infiniti, the 17-year-old left two friends waiting in the parking lot. Once inside Walgreen's, she ambled to the ladies room, where she injected a hit of heroin.
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