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Cops: Wrong-way Southern driver was high

A Huntington man who drove the wrong way for about five miles Friday on the Southern State Parkway between Islip Terrace and North Bay Shore faces a charge of driving while under the influence of drugs, State Police said.

John Brooks, 28, told troopers he had taken prescription drugs when he was stopped about 2:30 a.m., traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of the parkway, police said.

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