Heroin on Long Island
Heroin stories from Newsday's archive.
Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant | Thomas Burke, a recovering heroin and OxyContin addict, is interviewed at Hope House Ministries in Port Jefferson. (Oct. 14, 2010)
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article Health 1/23/13 Guilty plea in Newburgh gang slayings A Newburgh Latin Kings leader pleaded guilty Tuesday, one day before his murder trial was ... Read More »
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article Health 1/17/13 Kingston drug sweep nets 21 arrests An Ulster County drug sweep culminated in narcotics charges against 21 people, several of them ... Read More »
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article Health 1/17/13 Yonkers pharmacist charged in oxy scheme The manager of a Yonkers pharmacy faces up to 20 years in prison and $1 ... Read More »
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article Health 1/17/13 Newburgh man nabbed on drug charges Carlos Valentin III was found with 21 envelopes of heroin, and six grams of marijuana ... Read More »
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article Health 1/15/13 Cops: Putnam man sold $12K of heroin per week A Putnam County man transplanted from the Bronx has been accused of running a one-man ... Read More »
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article Health 1/9/13 Rockland officer linked to NYC bomb-making case A Rockland County correction officer may be linked to the case of a Greenwich Village ... Read More »
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article Suffolk 1/9/13 LI woman ran fundraising scam, cops say A Port Jefferson Station woman was in custody on multiple charges Wednesday after police said ... Read More »
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article Health 1/8/13 Ex-Newburgh gang leader gets 30 years A former Newburgh gang leader was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday, the U.S. ... Read More »
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article Health 1/3/13 Feds: Pearl River man dealt opiates A Pearl River man operating as "an outlaw pharmacy" contributed to the 2011 overdose death ... Read More »
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article Health 1/3/13 Ramapo traffic stop leads to heroin bust A Rockland County grand jury has indicted a Troy man whom police found carrying more ... Read More »
Drug addiction
Heroin on the rise on Long Island