Generation 'H': The Gateway Drugs -- Is Heroin the Real Problem?
According to the CDC, 2014 saw the highest number of drug overdose deaths than any other recorded year, and opioids were involved in 61 percent of those fatalities.
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According to the CDC, 2014 saw the highest number of drug overdose deaths than any other recorded year, and opioids were involved in 61 percent of those fatalities.
Sitting in her Bellmore, Long Island home, surrounded by pictures of her son Michael, Valerie remembers better times and shares her son's high school stories.
Christina's journey is filled with the kinds of stories that make your stomach turn. On heroin at the age of 12, off heroin at 15, back on at 16, off again at 17, on again at 20…and so it has gone for her and countless others across America.
Less than two minutes after walking into the Toms River Police Department to talk to Chief Mitchell Little about the township's heroin problem, a 9-1-1 call came in.
She has an infectious smile, strawberry blonde hair, and since kicking her heroin habit two years ago, 27-year-old Morgan says she is meeting herself, in many ways, for the first time.
Fabian Rodriguez, 33, has been charged with causing and leaving the scene of a fatal accident and 26-year-old Joanna Rosas-Alvarez has been charged with hindering apprehension, authorities said. They are being held without bail.
Donald Trump is going after Mitt Romney once again after the former Republican presidential nominee announced plans to speak on the "state of the 2016 presidential race" Thursday in Utah.
The owner of a New Jersey pet store is under investigation over allegations of animal cruelty.
From wallets and smart phones to lunches, office thefts are on the rise, but so are creative ways to catch a "cubicle crook."
An NYPD Mounted Unit Horse threw off an officer and bolted down the street in Times Square Wednesday evening.
Seventh Avenue has become a scene of madness in Midtown, with people risking their lives just to get home.
Police said two aerosol cans with a detonator exploded in a moving car in the Bronx Wednesday evening, and it was not believed to be an accident.
Sports Authority has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will close or sell 140 stores.
Police are looking for two men involved in a dispute that ended with a slashing at a Bronx subway station.
A worker at a Long Island group home was arrested this week on allegations that she of repeatedly hitting a disabled patient in the head with a book.
