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Many on Long Island learn of heroin's tight grip
Across Long Island, thousands of people, some barely in their teens, are learning that heroin addiction is a monster not easily conquered. The drug holds its users in a tight grasp and won't let go without a mammoth struggle.
Between 2004 and 2008, at least 1,068 people in Nassau and Suffolk counties died from opiate overdoses. Since the beginning of the year, authorities in both counties...
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