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Experts stress dangers of opioid abuse the spike in overdose deaths. Gray’s daughter, Amanda a graduate of Belmont Abbey College Drug overdoses have claimed in North Carolina and Manhasthe lives of more than 100,000 set resident, died in 2018, at age Americans in a sin25, of an opioid overgle for the first time dose. in 2021, a 28.5 percent “Back in 2018, my increase over the daughter had just previous year. The come out of the mentotal is more than tal hospital,” Gray the number of car said. “She’d been sufcrash and gun fatalifering terribly for ties combined. Overyears. We found realdose deaths have ly good therapy at a more than doubled psychiatric hospital since 2015, when and she was doing 2 5 - ye a r- o l d G l e n great — everything Cove resident Branwas going well. She don Jones died of a was really, really suspected heroin looking good.” overdose. Amanda suffered The North Shore from acute borderCoalition Against line personality disSubstance Abuse order, and began selfpresented a lecture MICHAEL GRAY medicating in 2015 on Nov. 16 at the Founder, Actus with benzodiaz e Glenwood Life Cenpines, or tranquilizFoundation ter, detailing the dane r s. I n 2 0 1 7 s h e gers of opioids and began using heroin, offering sobering statistics on and she died a year later after opioid use on Long Island. taking a fatal dose of fentanyl, a Michael Gray, founder of the powerful opioid. Actus Foundation in Manhasset, “What I perceived to be the which seeks solutions to the opi- opioid crisis [was actually] my oid crisis, explained what fentan- daughter [suffering from] an yl is, the science behind it and why it is largely responsible for CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
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NURSE PRACTITIONERS LORETTA Wong and Mara McCrossin and Dr. Conor Sperzel, of Glen Cove Hospital’s Rehabilitation Program, with one of the two miniature horses, Aidan, that visited with hospital workers.
Miniature horses swing by hospital for therapy session BY JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com
Last Friday, around lunchtime, Glen Cove Hospital staff took a break from their routines to enjoy a few minutes of horseplay in the employee parking lot. For two hours, employees visited with two miniature horses to relieve the stress from the coronavi-
rus pandemic as it nears the two-year mark. “We felt it was a nice break and something to relieve the stress from dealing with Covid and the isolation of being in the hospital so long,” Doreen Mather, a nurse navigator and head of patient and customer experience, said. “It was something nice we could do as a way to say thank you
to the employees and staff.” The two horses, Aidan and Pearl, both 11 and about 36 inches tall, arrived at the hospital in a minivan, accompanied by staff and volunteers from HorseAbility, a nonprofit therapeutic sportsmanship center in Old Westbury. The organization has many programs that promote the physiCONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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perceived to be the opioid crisis [was actually] my daughter [suffering from] an acute mental illness.