Forum to eye heroin, prescription drug abuse
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | Susan Roethel, founder of the drug abuse awareness group Fallen On Long Island, remembers her daughter Sydney (in photo behind) who died from a heroin overdose at her Huntington home. (Sept. 21, 2012)
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The overdose deaths of at least four Huntington Town residents in less than a year has sparked concerns the community has fallen prey to a dubious Long Island trend -- deadly heroin and prescription drug abuse.
"The kids are dropping dead left and right," said Susan Roethel, of Huntington. Her daughter Megan, 22, died in May of a heroin overdose.
After her daughter's death, Roethel responded...
