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03.10.2023 Community

Riverhead CAP receives grant funding through Suffolk County opioid settlement

Two new grant funding sources will help the Riverhead Community Awareness Program further its youth substance abuse and mental health prevention programs, the organization announced last week. The Substance...

03.08.2023 Health

Narcan kits expanding throughout North Fork to combat drug overdoses

A string of fatal drug overdoses in the summer of 2021 left the North Fork community with deep scars. Now, local organizations and businesses are working together to help...

02.03.2020 Police

Suffolk police launch anti-trafficking initiative to educate public on warning signs to hidden problem

Suffolk County’s opioid crisis has fueled another epidemic: human trafficking of young women, who are often led into prostitution, according to police. In the past 27 months, the Suffolk...

07.28.2019 Editorials

Editorial: These massive numbers should anger everyone

From 2006 to 2012, manufacturers shipped 76 billion opioid pills to pharmacies nationwide. More than 3.3 billion were shipped to New York State during that period. Of that total,...

03.16.2019 Editorials

Editorial: With overdose arrests, history has been made

In a very real sense, history was made again March 11 when two men were arraigned on manslaughter charges for allegedly supplying heroin cut with fentanyl to a Riverhead...

11.30.2018 Health

East End News Project: Coalitions aim to reduce substance abuse

With the nation in the throes of an opioid epidemic, more emphasis is being placed on preventing youth from starting down the path to addiction. A handful of East...

08.30.2018 Health

Experts: opioid crisis was avoidable

One company, the Sackler family’s Purdue Pharma, has played a critical role in instigating an epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States that killed 72,000 Americans last year...

06.02.2018 Editorials

Editorial: Fight this epidemic

An iconic image from the mid-1980s came from a group of New York City artists, who had “gathered over several months to provide support for one another in the...

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