NYIT Roundtable-Heroin Treatment (Part 2) – Nassau County Assistant District Attorney Rene Fiechter talks to Patricia Hinken, President of NAFAS (Nassau Alliance for Addiction Services) and Jamie Bogen…

 

Cops say drug counselor busted buying heroin in Paterson

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PATERSON – A 27-year-old drug counselor on a break from her job at a city substance abuse treatment facility was arrested and charged with buying 30 packets of heroin on Wednesday afternoon in a bust made just a block from the Passaic County Sheriff's …
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Parents recount son's battle with heroin addiction

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WAUSAU — On a sunny Saturday morning in March, Michael Dixon's family picked him up from the rehab facility he had entered six months earlier; they found a man filled with hope for a future free from the chains of heroin addiction. Less than 24 hours …
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Damian Esteban, NYC Teacher Who Brought Heroin To Jury Duty, Gets Firing …

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"We cannot fathom how a teacher who took 20 bags of heroin into a courthouse is fit to stand in front of a classroom and teach the city's school children," Michael A. Cardozo, the city's top lawyer, said in a statement. Mayor Michael Bloomberg added …
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