Heroin use, overdose deaths on LI rising amid crackdown on painkiller abuse
Susan Roethel, founder of The Fallen on Long Island outreach, talks about her daughter's death from heroin. Videojournalist: J. Conrad Willliams Jr. (Sept. 26, 2012) (September 27, 2012 8:49 PM)
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Heroin killed a record 83 people in Suffolk County last year as more addicts turned to the drug amid a crackdown on prescription pill abuse, according to law enforcement officials and county records.
The number of people confirmed to have died from heroin-related overdoses across Long Island rose to 110 last year from 96 in 2011, despite a decline in Nassau, records of the county medical examiners...
