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A story of addiction

North Shore mother shares her harrowing heroin story

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Dying for a high: one drug’s grip on LI As you probably guessed from the cover, this week’s issue of The Times of Middle Country is set up a little differently.

Suffolk County has one of the highest rates of death from heroin and opioid overdoses in New York State, and we feel this growing drug abuse problem deserves a special journalistic spotlight. So we dedicated this issue to looking at the different angles of

approaching the heroin and opioid problem.

In this week’s paper, you will find facts: How much the substance abuse trend has grown throughout the past few years; how our local communities, governments, police departments and residents have adapted to fight back against this movement; and reflections from recovering addicts and parents who have lost children to drug overdoses.

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Commentators on the rising opioid crisis in the United States commonly say dealing with the problem requires a multi-pronged approach, and the Suffolk County Police

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The department has expanded efforts to combat the many fronts of the opioid crisis, including prevention, treatment and enforcement.

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Opioid panel talks heroin trends in history, controversy with Narcan

By Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com Medical professionals, law enforcement and government officials gathered at Stony Brook University this past weekend to have an open and honest dialogue about the growing opioid problem facing the North Shore and the rest of Suffolk County.

The complexity of the problem and how it relates to communities across the county was the topic of the discussion Oct. 1. A common theme among the speakers was opioid addiction should be treated like a legitimate medical crisis and not a moral failing.

Dr. Constantine Ioannou, director of Stony Brook Medical Center’s Adult Inpatient Unit addressed the current opioid crisis in the United States and specifically in Suffolk County during the event.

“This is not the first opioid epidemic in the United States — this is one of many,” Ioannou said. He likened the current state of opioid prescribing and subsequent widespread addiction to a period in the late 1800s when morphine was first developed.

He said doctors overprescribed the powerful painkiller and, in turn, opioid dependence skyrocketed.

The director traced the origin of the current crisis back to two events in 1995. Purdue Pharma, a pharmaceutical company, began marketing OxyContin, its version of the powerful opioid oxycodone, to doctors.

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the suffolk County Police Department has saved more than 600 lives since 2012 using Narcan to reverse opioid or heroin overdoses. Data from sCPD. organization dedicated to advocating for public policies to reduce pain-related issues, named pain as the fifth vital sign.

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based on what a patient tells a nurse or doctor, Ioannou said.

Those two events, in accordance with nurse ratings and even payment being tied to patient satisfaction and reduction, created an environment of overprescribing, Ioannou said. He also said training of doctors in pain management needs to be addressed — he graduated from medical school in 1985 with “zero” training in pain management.

“There are states in the United States where there are more prescriptions for opiate pain medications than there are people — this is a staggering number,” Ioannou said.

Jermaine Jones, Ph.D., an assistant professor of clinical neurobiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, also spoke and reiterated some of what Ioannou said regarding the United States’ views on pain management.

“I’ve had friends from other countries say that unless you come into the E.R. with an arm missing, you’re not going to get a prescription that you could get here for having a root canal,” Jones said. “We make up about 5 percent of the world’s population yet we consume about 80 percent of the prescription opioid [painkillers].”

Jones is involved in a study called Risks and Benefits of Overdose Education and Naloxone Prescribing to Heroin Users and spoke about some of his findings. Naloxone, commonly known by the brand name Narcan, is

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PUBLIC NOTICE SUMMONS File # 124748 Docket: V-04258-16 FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK ––––––––––––––X In the Matter of a Custody/ Visitation Proceeding Heather McClee, Petitioner, -against Donnell Thomas, Respondent.

––––––––––––––X IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: To: Donnell Thomas 64 Dare Road Selden, NY 11784 A petition under Article 6 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court requesting the following reliefs: Order to Show Cause and Custody; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before this Court on Date/Time: November 2, 2016 at 9:00 A.M. Purpose: Arraignment Part: 9 Riverhead Floor/Room: Floor 2/Room 2028 Presiding: Hon. George F. Harkin Location: Arthur M. Cromarty Court Complex 210 Center Drive, 2nd Floor Riverhead, NY 11901 to answer the petition and to be dealt with in accordance with Article 6 of the Family Court Act. On your failure to appear as herein directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest.

Dated: September 22, 2016 Michael J. Williams Chief Clerk TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. George F. Harkin of the Family Court, Suffolk County, dated and filed with the petition and other papers in the Office of the Clerk of the Family Court, Suffolk County.

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there is sufficient funds to accomplish the purpose hereinafter set forth; namely, masonry work to headquarters, and it proposed to contract for such work in order to maintain the high standards of performance of the CENTEREACH FIRE DEPARTMENT in the discharge of its duties in preserving the lives and property of the residents of the community, and said work is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT. The resolution further provides that there be transferred from the present Section 6(g) Capital Reserve Fund For Buildings and Grounds of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT a sum not to exceed One Hundred Sixty-Four Thousand ($164,000.00) Dollars for the work, and the District Treasurer is authorized to effect such transfer from time to time to effect such work.

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PersPectives

Through a mother’s eyes: Learning from the loss of a son Your turn

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BY TraceY farrell In 2002, my 16-year-old son Kevin had surgery on his shoulder for a football injury. He was prescribed 60 Vicodin pills with no other instructions but to take one or two of them every four to six hours for pain.

I didn’t know they weren’t like antibiotics, and you weren’t supposed to take all 60. He was still in pain, so they gave him 60 more.

Well, guess who is now addicted to them? He was buying them during lunch.

This is the high school quarterback. His girlfriend is the cheerleading captain. He is beautiful, loving, fun and funny. His friends love him. His teachers and coaches love him. He has not an enemy in the world. He graduates. He works. He is a great kid.

Kevin chose to smoke pot instead of taking the pills soon after high school, but at some point he went back to the pills — especially since I was on him all of the time to stop smoking. He had multiple concussions over his high school football career. After his last one, I saw a change in his personality. He was easily angered, depressed, anxious — all things he was not before.

I didn’t know at the time that marijuana and opioids help make all of those symptoms so much better. The drugs make them disappear. I didn’t know that the only enemy he did have was the one within himself.

When Kevin went back to the pills, he began snorting them this time. And a lot of them. Once I saw a powder residue on his glass desk and, only knowing what I saw on TV, I put it on my tongue to see if it would numb it. Nope, not cocaine.

I knew deep down something was going on. He didn’t shower as often or take care of his teeth. Changes in his habits were starting to happen.

These Oxycodone pills are expensive, and make you painfully sick when you don’t have them. An addict becomes so desperate that they will beg, borrow and steal to get them — literally. Eventually when you have exhausted stealing your family’s available cash, you steal their jewelry, sports memorabilia and anything else of value you can sneak out of the house. You write bad checks from your mom’s bank account. Eventually you realize there’s an alternative available and you turn to heroin. It’s cheap, and readily available. You just have to put money in your mailbox and drugs appear moments later.

That point happened some time in 2011. I assume he started snorting it before he shot it.

Nine years in and I am still clueless, uneducated, unaware to so much of it. Kevin never, ever looked high in front of me. I was missing spoons, which are used to melt the heroin down to a soluble form, but I still thought

Tracey Budd and her son Kevin Norris in 2010 maybe they were thrown out by mistake? Yes, he had been to rehab, but I didn’t know that it didn’t fix you. I didn’t know that me giving him no option but to enter rehab wouldn’t work. I didn’t know that he had to want to be in recovery.

I learned how to be manipulated. I enabled everything. I believed every lie he told me and would hand over money in fear he would be killed for the money he owed.

Eventually, he must leave the house. Kevin would live in his car, on which I was now making the payments and insuring. It’s winter and I cannot fathom the thought of him in a car at Christmas, so I get him an apartment.

I sent his stepfather over many times to see if he was alive when I couldn’t get in touch with him. I even called 911 on him when I thought he was suicidal, which resulted in a short hospital hold. I started to understand that he does not want this for himself, but doesn’t know how to stop. He fears withdrawal, and I hear his pain and cries when he begs me for money because he is so sick. He is eventually hospitalized for a blood infection. I realize I can no longer keep him in that apartment.

I clean the place out.

He didn’t need much food. The only thing in the fridge was water. I find all the things he has used as a tourniquet. There is an amazing amount of plastic garbage bag drawstrings removed from bags, Q-tips everywhere with the cotton taken off which are used as filters.

So many water bottle caps. So many syringes.

I didn’t want my son to die, but I’m realizing I’m making it more comfortable for him.

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Through most of his addiction he was highly functioning, always holding down a job. This was no longer the case.

He gets out of the hospital and is back to his car. I’m giving him $20 a day. He gets food stamps and Medicaid from the Department of Social Services. I find he sells what’s on his food stamp card. I pump gas in his car, but I do not hand over more cash. There were times I threw money in his car so angrily at him when he asked.

I struggled between loving him and hating him.

He began living in a hotel with his dealer and got arrested for possession of a syringe.

He’s assigned a public defender, but of course Mom pays the fees and it’s knocked down.

But a few days prior, he made the choice on his own — which is key — to seek help.

He made the calls on his own, instead of me doing all of the legwork, to enter South Oaks Hospital in Amityville. His third try at rehab. But now, he wants it.

I went to a family meeting about 10 days in.

There he is. My son, my real son. Thank you, thank you and thank you.

He was enrolled in a 28-day program. He went to Mainstream House in Riverhead, a sober house. We do family things together again. We shop, we go to lunch, dinner. He wanted to be around us again. I haven’t had this in years. We laugh, we cry.

He got kicked out of sober living for having Ambien, a prescription drug, because he had a hard time sleeping. I let him back home. Kevin has a new job, a new girlfriend. He seems happy.

‘There were times I threw money into his car so angrily when he asked me. I struggled between loving him and hating him.’

I didn’t go to the classes I should have. I didn’t learn that someone new to recovery does not want their past thrown at them. One day at a time is their mantra. Yesterday is the past. He’s going to his meetings on a regular basis, but now that he is working, that starts to not be as often. Anything that goes missing I automatically accuse him. He wants a new phone because his is old and cracked. I bought him a new one and he “lost” it. I still tell him that if he didn’t sell it he would have it. He tells me he is working an honest program and that he has told me everything — including that he did not sell the phone. I apologize and tell him I am proud of him.

Kevin is working for a company which does party rentals.

One Sunday, in September 2012, he came home looking tired. He was thrilled that they gave him a $100 tip. They even gave him the leftover cake, which we of course ate together.

We spoke of the cotton candy on his sneakers, because he worked the cotton candy machine.

He thought it was fun.

The next day, his sister found him dead in bed. It was an accidental overdose.

They say money is a trigger.

I will never know what led him back. I know now I didn’t cause it. I couldn’t control it and I couldn’t cure it. I prepared myself that this day could come, but I thought he was in the clear. Our very last conversation was about cotton candy, one of the things I craved most when I was pregnant with him.

I still have the cotton-candy-covered shoe laces. I miss him every day. I still struggle with not doing the things I now know I should have done, and I try to teach people every day to not make the same mistakes I did. Learn from me please. Let me tell you anything and everything that may help you or your loved one.

It helps me to help you.

I just went to a celebration meeting of one of his best friends celebrating one year of sobriety on Sunday, and he said, “I think he may have died so I can live.”

Tracey Farrell, formerly Tracey Budd, is a Rocky Point resident who, since her son’s passing, educates others on drug abuse and assists in finding help for those who are struggling, or know someone who is struggling, with addiction. She is the founder of North Shore Drug Awareness Advocates and also a 2015 TBR Person of the Year.

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WHEREAS, on the 27th day of September, 2016, pursuant to Section 105 of the Town Law and Section 181 of the Town Law, the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Centereach Fire District confirmed that the Annual Fire District Budget Hearing will be conducted with reference to the Annual Fire District Budget for the fiscal year 2017 on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 commencing at 7:00 p.m. at the Fire Headquarters Building located at 9 South Washington Ave. Centereach, NY and WHEREAS, the Board of Fire Commissioners is required to adopt a proposed budget at least 21 days before October 18, 2016 so that it is available for public inspection prior to the budget hearing.

NOW, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Centereach Fire District has adopted a proposed Annual Fire District Budget for 2017 as of this date for purposes of discussion and review at the Budget hearing to be held on October 18, 2016, and a copy of the proposed budget is available at the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Brookhaven and at the office of the Centereach Fire District Secretary at 9 South Washington Ave. Centereach, NY where it may be inspected by any interested person during office hours. In addition copies of the proposed budget will be available on the night of the said hearing.

NOW, therefore BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Centereach Fire District will hold the Annual Fire District Budget hearing to be conducted with reference to the Annual Fire District Budget for fiscal year 2017 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 commencing at 7:00 p.m. at the Fire Headquarters building located at 9 South Washington Ave. Centereach, NY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the aforesaid budget will be presented to the residents and taxpayers of the Centereach Fire District and to the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Centereach Fire District, for their respective

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Incidents and arrests from Sept. 27-Oct. 3 Uncalled for

A 19-year-old man from Stony Brook took an iPhone and a watch from a technology display at the Port Jefferson Free Library Sept. 26, according to police. He was arrested Oct. 3 in Port Jefferson and charged with petit larceny.

Cliffhanger

On Clifford Lane in Medford Oct. 3, a 17-year-old man from Coram forcibly stole money from another person, according to police. He was arrested and charged with second-degree burglary.

Lightning rod

On Aug. 23 at a home on Rod Road in Port Jefferson Station, a 62-year-old man from Port Jefferson Station punched a mailbox and damaged a lawn chair, according to police. He was arrested Oct. 2 in Selden and charged with criminal mischief.

Doctor’s note please

A 30-year-old man from Mount Sinai possessed the drug Suboxone without a prescription while at the Suffolk County Police Department 6th Precinct in Selden Sept. 30, police said. He was arrested and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Busted on Baldwin

On Sept. 29, a 31-year-old man from Middle Island was driving a 2013 BMW on Baldwin Lane in Medford with a suspended license, according to police. During the arrest, police discovered he had marijuana and another controlled substance. He was charged with unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of marijuana.

Shattered glass

The rear window of a 2008 Pontiac was damaged while it was parked outside of a home on Wagon Lane in Centereach at about 11 p.m. Oct. 2, according to police.

Step away from the vehicle

At a home on Seminole Street in Selden Sept. 27, a 46-year-old woman from Selden refused to exit a 2007 Dodge, which was to be impounded despite demands from Suffolk County Police,

according to police. She then picked up a box cutter and refused demands it be dropped. She was arrested and charged with second-degree obstruction of government administration.

Next time try knocking

A 45-year-old man from Selden entered a fenced in backyard on Linden Street in Selden Sept. 27 and entered a home through a rear sliding glass door, according to police. He attempted to steal an item but was unsuccessful. He was arrested and charged with third-degree burglary.

A cut above

At Best Market Selden grocery store Sept. 27, a 51-year-old man from Coram entered, displayed a knife and made an employee fear for his life, police said. He was arrested and charged with seconddegree menacing with a weapon.

Liar liar

On Sept. 27, a 19-year-old man from Selden driving on Wireless Road and Lynn Street in Centereach was traveling at an excessive speed, failed to signal while swerving between lanes, drove into oncoming traffic and ran a red light, police said. He was arrested and charged with reckless driving.

Making me blush

A 27-year-old man from the Bronx stole assorted makeup from Walmart on Nesconset Highway in Setauket Oct. 1, police said. He was arrested and charged with petit larceny.

Phone home

A cellphone was stolen from an apartment on Patchogue Road in Port Jefferson Station at about 6:30 a.m. Oct. 3, according to police.

Supplement shopping

The front door was damaged at GNC on Middle country Road in Centereach at about 6 p.m. Oct. 2, though nothing was stolen, according to police.

Not so E-Z

A credit card and an E-Z Pass were missing from a 2015 Dodge after it was left at Mavis Discount Tire on Nesconset Highway in Port Jefferson Station Oct. 1, according to police.

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SCPD Continued from page A2 interview that the opioid problem is the number one public safety and public health issue in Suffolk County.

“We have over 100 opioid-related overdoses every year for the past several years, and then when you consider the more than 500 Narcan saves on top of that, the tragic loss of life and the near tragic loss of life is just shocking,” he said at police headquarters in Yaphank.

It’s no secret the SCPD has their job cut out for them — in 2014 Suffolk County had the highest number of overdose deaths involving heroin, and was the leader in deaths where prescription opioids were a factor in the state, according to a report by the New York State Comptroller’s office from June.

Sini also highlighted how crime is so closely associated with an increase in drug activity.

“Addicts often resort to burglaries and larcenies, and sometimes they elevate to robberies,” he said. “And now we’re seeing our gangs getting involved in the heroin trade because there is a lot of money to be made and there are so many customers.”

The commissioner said the department is working as hard as it can to ensure it’s as inconvenient as possible to sell drugs in Suffolk County.

At the end of March, SCPD started a program that encourages residents to call 631852-NARC, an anonymous hotline encouraging residents to call in with drug tips they have. If the tip leads to an arrest, the resident is entitled to a cash reward. This initiative works in conjunction with Crime Stoppers, a program that connects local police depart-

ments with the public and media to help find suspects and collect information that can lead to arrests.

“Since we rolled [the drug hotline] out at the end of March, we’ve received over 500 tips on that line, and many of those have resulted in investigations and search warrants,” Sini said. “We’ve seized kilogram quantities of narcotics as a result of this initiative, over a million dollars in drug money, dozens and dozens of weapons, and over 200 arrests under this initiative. It’s important because not only does it take drugs off the street but it sends the message that we’re not going to tolerate drug dealing in our communities.”

The police department has said open communication with the public is an important part of this fight, because the more communities speak up and help the department, the better work the police can do.

Sini said since he took over, there has been almost a 200 percent increase in the amount of search warrants executed, and many of these are due to tips from residents. “[Search warrants] are very important because it disrupts drug operations before they become too significant,” Sini said. “It takes guns and drugs off the streets, and also strengthens the partnership between the police department and the community. It encourages people to be more informative.”

Relationships with federal law enforcement partners have also been re-established,

jail, and then are set up with a treatment provider in their community to work with when they are released.

Suffolk County officers are also dedicated to providing programs that help with prevention.

The Ugly Truth is a program meant to educate school districts and community groups on the dangers this growing problem poses for all different age groups in Suffolk County.

There are many other programs in effect right now being taught throughout the county.

“If we can prevent someone from ever going down that road, that’s where you’ll get your biggest bang for your buck,” Sini said.

The commissioner said he is only interested in working with evidence-based programs, which are resources that have been studied by analysts to prove their effectiveness.

Certain police officers are also designated as school resource officers. They are assigned to specific districts to participate in awareness programs with the students.

Sini said despite all the resources the department provides, more needs to be done.

“The silver lining is, among the experts there is consensus,” Sini said. “We don’t sit there and debate if addiction is a disease or if the cops can solve this problem. We all get it; this is a multifaceted problem that creates issues for families, schools, the police department, probation, courts, medical examiners, churches and more. And everyone has got to be at the table.”

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Sini said, and five detectives now work with the Drug Enforcement Administration; four focus on the heroin trade and the fifth investigates doctors and pharmacists who have been reported to unlawfully dispense or prescribe pain medication.

The police department has also focused resources on treating drug addicts who are in the throes of addiction.

Inmates at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Yaphank have the option of receiving voluntary medical assistance while still in jail. The department offers inmates who are eligible for the program, meaning they don’t have any drugs currently in their system and have said they want to commit to getting clean, an injection of Vivitrol, a drug that works as an opioid antagonist, blocking the opioid receptors in the brain and preventing someone from getting high for 30 days.

“It gives you that mental clarity and stability to essentially not relapse, so you can stay in treatment,” Sini said. “It’s highly effective but most addicts don’t want to use it because once you take that shot, you know you can’t get high for thirty days. So it takes someone who is really committed to getting help.”

Sini said the program starts in jail, and they look for inmates who have essentially been incarcerated because they are addicted to drugs, with arrests due to burglaries, possession, and other drug-related crimes. Incarcerated individuals receive their first shot in

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Community leaders stress looking past the opioid ‘stigma’

By Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com Suffolk County has a drug problem.

And while it may be broken news, this is not breaking news.

Heroin and prescription opioid-related overdoses and deaths are increasing yearly across the nation, state and county, according to all available data, but the overall conversation lacks focus, those close to the issue have said. One Long Island man whose line of work leaves him with little insulation from the problem said it is worse than most would imagine.

Dan Moloney, who along with his brother Peter owns six Long Island locations of Moloney Family Funeral Homes, said in an exclusive interview that he believes the problem facing Suffolk County deserves a harsher spotlight. Moloney, who has an unenviable front row seat to the horrors that come from the addictive and powerful substance, said the problem reached a tipping point for him in 2009.

After a funeral for a Rocky Point student who overdosed, the Moloneys decided to try to use their platform to deliver an important message. They had posters made up with the words “Some kids are dying for a high” in bold letters on top of an image of a flower arrangement with a card that read, “With Deepest Sympathy, The class of ’10.” Below the image, the funeral director’s message read in part: “The last thing we want to see is a death that could have been prevented. Help us make sure we don’t.”

The Moloneys tried to distribute the posters to school districts around the Island, though they couldn’t find any takers.

“Nobody wants to talk about it,” Dan Moloney said. “Nobody wants to hear from the funeral director.”

On the surface, in Suffolk County, it would appear heroin abuse is a daily conversation in one way or another, from politicians sponsoring initiatives to news outlets covering arrests and overdoses, to firsthand accounts from former addicts in various forms.

Moloney said he wouldn’t agree — not only is the problem receiving too little attention, he said, but also the wrong people

are doing the talking.

“Are people sitting in the bleachers talking about the heroin problem?” he said.

“But if their kid had some sort of disease, they’d be talking about it. They’d be doing fundraisers to help them find a cure.”

The two go hand-in-hand — heroin and opioids — or at least they should, Moloney said. Heroin is an illegal and highly addictive version of an opioid, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, statistics reporting deaths related to one or the other are not always paired.

The CDC’s website said health care providers wrote nearly a quarter of a billion prescriptions for legal opioids in 2013.

Supply and demand for prescription pain medication doesn’t always dry up at the same rate. When the prescribed pills are gone and the desire for more lingers, the cheaper, stronger drug becomes a logical alternative.

In 2013, New York State’s Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing — Prescription Monitoring Program, also known as I-STOP/PMP, went into effect. The system works as a registry for practitioners to consult and track dispensed prescription histories for patients. The program has restricted supply of opioids to addicts, though it has done nothing to curb their demand. No tracking system exists for the neighborhood heroin dealer.

Moloney said one of his business’s facilities held funerals for three heroin overdose victims in just one day earlier this year. The closest comparison he could come up with to a public health concern inflicting that much damage in one day is a car crash that kills a vehicle full of people. He said that in some years, only two to three motorcyclerelated deaths occur over the course of entire summer, which the public tends to find alarming, but that pales in comparison to heroin- and opioid-related deaths.

The difficulties in securing relevant and timely statistics on overdose-related deaths in New York State has contributed to undermining the understanding of the severity of Suffolk County’s problem, according to Moloney.

“New York State is terrible,” he said about the state’s demographic record-

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Above, Maloney’s Funeral home still has stacks of this poster. Below, suffolk County leads New york state in deaths related to heroin and opioid overdoses. keeping, which is an insight few could offer outside of the funeral business. “Three years down the road — the latest data you have is from three years ago. With the technology we have today, there’s absolutely no reason for that. And I know from colleagues that I have in other states, when you can’t get the information about how many deaths occurred in a certain place for two or three years, or what they were — because all of that is tracked — I just think the data that’s out there is antiquated and the situation is worse than the data they’re using shows.”

Father Francis Pizzarelli, director of Hope House Ministries in Port Jefferson, has been a regular contributor of insight and opinions regarding heroin and opioid addiction among young people in Suffolk County for about as long. He, like Moloney, said the problem is likely worse than anyone in the county realizes.

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Pizzarelli said his tipping point, much like that of Moloney’s, came in 2009. So far, though, he added, it has not been enough.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Tim Sini said in May there were 103 fatal heroin overdoses in Suffolk County in 2015. New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (D) released a report on June 9 saying there were more than 200 deaths in which heroin or opioids played a role in Suffolk County in 2014.

Regardless of how and when the deaths are identified with a specific cause or a contributing factor being opioids, one thing is clear to Moloney: the number is higher than we think.

According to the Suffolk County Police Department, since the act of administering the medication Narcan to reverse an opioid overdose became commonplace in August 2012, more than 630 saves have been recorded through Sept. 22.

In addition to conflicting stats, Moloney said an issue that he encounters is the stigma parents feel about losing a child to an overdose and what it might suggest about their aptitude as a parent. Most of the time, parents decline to immediately identify a heroin or opioid overdose as their child’s cause of death, he said. In fact, Moloney estimated that nine out of 10 parents whose child died of an overdose don’t address the issue and the cause isn’t added to a death certificate until about three months later, when lab reports are complete.

“It almost creates an environment where there doesn’t have to be an acknowledgement —not publicly,” Moloney said.

“Of course there’s a lot of shame.”

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SCPD Deputy Sheriff Mike Kern speaks about the opioid crisis in Suffolk County.

Ioannou indicated he’d like to see changes in treatment options for addicts.

“We treat all addiction by the same model,” he said. “You have a five-day detox, 28-day rehab and you have an after care that is all based on 12 steps. That is the model of care in the United States. We need to realize with a complex disease, you need a complex set of interventions.”

Suffolk County Police Department Deputy Sheriff Mike Kern is an expert in recognizing drug users. He called overdoses the most powerful “advertisement” for drug dealers because it is a clear indication of how strong their product is. He echoed sentiments from both doctors about the dangers of overprescribing and to what it can lead.

“Why can a doctor prescribe an OxyContin to a 16-year-old or a 15-year-old who just had a root canal?” Kern asked. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”

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“We’re trying to better understand how to tease apart ways to attenuate what people like about opioids,” Jones said of the five-year study, which is currently in its second year.

He said the study was created to monitor people who are administered naloxone and see if it is being used for the correct purposes. One concern in the creation of an overdose reversal drug is that users will be more confident in their ability to combat an overdose and may decide not to call 911 if that day ever comes. Other potential unintended consequences of naloxone, including how to deal with a user who may be irate after being saved from an overdose and is now “dope sick” and without the expensive drug they just bought, are the focus of the study. They are also researching some potential new medications or existing ones that could work in accordance with opioids to reduce pain, while reducing the effects that lead to addiction.

“We know that detox by itself is actually one of the highest risk factors for opioid overdose because you’re tolerance decreases,” Jones said. “So once someone comes out of a detox program they swear they’re never going to touch this stuff again, but relapse is very, very common. So they use again thinking that if they were using two bags before, they can continue using two bags now that they’ve gotten out, but their physiological tolerance has decreased and people overdose as a result.”

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IMMEDIATE OPENING Harbor Country Day School FT First Grade Teaching Assistant. Bachelors degree in elementary education required. Please submit cover letter and resume to jcissel@hcdsny.org

MEDICAL ASSISTANT East Setauket areas, full time, Cardiac experience preferred resumes@ sbbusinessventures.org or apply sbadministrativeservcesllc. appone.com

P/T MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST OB/GYN-Stony Brook, prior experience preferred, M 7:30-1:00, T 1:30-8:00, W 8:30-1:00, TH 1:30-7:30, F 9:30-4:30 as needed Send resumes to resumes@ sbadministrativeservices.org or fax 631-675-2625.

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DISTRICT CLERK, P/T 12 months stipend position, $14,500 pro-rated. Submit letter of intent and completed RPUFSD non-instructional Employment Application: Susan Y. Sullivan, President, Rocky Point Schools Board of Education, Rocky Point UFSD, 90 Rocky Point Yaphank Rd, Rocky Point, NY, 11778

P/T DATA ENTRY Filing, bookkeeping, banking, answering phones, serving legal papers, $13.50. Send resume to: lisa@servem.com See Employment Display for complete details

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ASSISTANT HOUSE MGR: F/T COTTAGE SUPVR (LMSW Req.) Valid NYS Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s License required for most positions.â&#x20AC; Little Flower Children and Family Services in Wading River NY. Send resume to: wadingriver-jobs@lfchild.org or fax to 631-929- 6203 EOE PLEASE SEE COMPLETE DETAILS IN EMPLOYMENT DISPLAY ADS

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PUBLISHERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EMPLOYMENT NOTICE: All employment advertising in this newspaper is subject to section 296 of the human rights law which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, disability, marital status, sex, age or arrest conviction record or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. Title 29, U.S. Code Chap 630, excludes the Federal Govâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. from the age discrimination provisions. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for employment which is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that employment offerings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

P/T CUSTODIAN/ MAINTENANCE , 20-24 hours a week for a local nonprofit organization. The position includes light lifting(up to 30 pounds), cleaning restrooms, classrooms, hallways, snow removal,emptying garbage and general maintenance.

Fax resume to 631-744-8611 or email to Awhite@sldmrc.org

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$5,000 SIGN-ON BONUS Class A CDL Delivery Contract Carriers Needed Immediately! Flat Bed abd moffett experience a plus. Call Today.

Donna, 203-676-6967. Victor, 315-857-6102

LAKE GROVE HIRING FAIR Wednesday. October. 12th 10am-12pm RSVP to NELGVHIRING @ wholefoods.com BRING YOUR RESUME! (Culinary background preferred.) Whole Foods Market

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E M P L OY M E N T / C A R E E R S Rocky Point Schools AVAILABLE POSITION

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TRAVEL AGENT WANTED

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Northport Location.

Full/Part/Flexible.

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on Saturday, October 15, 2016 from 10 am - 4 pm Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites East End 1707 Old Country Rd., Route 58, Riverhead, NY 11901

NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY Little Flower is looking to hire the following positions for our Wading River Residential Programs: Direct Care Workers (Per Diem and Part Time) Valid Drivers Child Care Workers (Per Diem, Full Time and Part Time) License Required F/T Cottage Supervisors & Asst. House Manager - BA Degree P/T Medicaid Service Coordinator - BA Degree

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Process server company serving legal papers $13.50.

Casual attire, need a reliable, responsible individual.

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Please submit a letter of intent and completed RPUFSD non-instructional employment application (available at www.rockypointschools.org) to the attention of: Susan Y. Sullivan, President, Rocky Point Schools Board of Education, Rocky Point UFSD, 90 Rocky Point-Yaphank Road, Rocky Point NY 11778

PART-TIME DATA ENTRY, FILING, ANSWERING PHONES, BANKING, BOOKKEEPING

Place your ad today Call 631.751.7663 or 631.331.1154

Send resume to Little Flower Children and Family Services in Wading River NY â&#x20AC;¢ Send resume to wadingriver-jobs@lfchild.org or fax to 631.929.6203 EOE

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Fences

GREENLITE ELECTRIC, INC. Repairs, installations, motor controls, PV systems.

Piotr Dziadula, Master Electrician. Lic. #4694-ME/Ins. 631-331-3449

SMITHPOINT FENCE. Storm Damage Repairs.

Wood, Chainlink, PVC, Stockade. Free Estimates. 70 Jayne Blvd., PJS Lic./Ins. 631-743-9797 www.smithpointfence.com.

POWERPRO GENERATORS is a full service generator company specializing in Generator installations, service and monitoring for any Home or Business.

Call 631-567-2700 www.powerprogenerators.com

SOUNDVIEW ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING Prompt * Reliable * Professional. Residential/Commercial, Free Estimates.

Ins/Lic#41579-ME. Owner Operator 631-828-4675 See our Display Ad in the Home Services Directory

Floor Services/Sales

DREYFUS FLOOR CARE. Commercial/Residential.

Polishing, stripping, sealing, vinyl, ceramic, wood, terracotta. Weekly, bi-weekly maintence. 20 years experience. 631-731-7779 FINE SANDING & REFINISHING Wood Floor Installations Craig Aliperti, Wood Floors LLC. All work done by owner.

25 years experience.

Lic.#47595-H/Insured.

631-875-5856

Furniture/Restoration/ Repairs

Home Improvement

REFINISHING & RESTORATION Antiques restored, repairing recane, reupholstery, touchups kitchen, front doors, 40 yrs exp, SAVE$$$, free estimates. Vincent Alfano 631-286-1407

MEIGEL HOME IMPROVEMENT Extensions, dormers, roofing, windows, siding, decks, kitchens, baths, tile, etc.

631-737-8794 Licensed in Suffolk 26547-H and Nassau H18F5030000.

Insured.

Handyman Services JOHN’S A-1 HANDYMAN SERVICE *Crown moldings* Wainscoting/raised panels.

Kitchen/Bathroom Specialist.

Painting, windows, finished basements, ceramic tile. All types repairs. Dependable craftsmanship. Reasonable rates. Lic/Ins.#19136-H. 631-744-0976 c.631 697-3518 THE TOOLMAN HANDYMAN SERVICES Fix it! Build it! Change it! Repair it! Paint it! The big name in small jobs, lic#-454612-H & insured Call 928-1811.

*BluStar Construction* The North Shore’s Most Trusted Renovation Experts.

631-751-0751 Suffolk Lic. #48714-H, Ins. See Our Display Ad

BUDGET BLINDS Thousands of window coverings. Hunter-Douglas Showcase Dealer www.BudgetBlinds.com /huntington

631-766-5758 Huntington 631-766-1276 Port Jefferson 631-329-8663 Hamptons Celebrating Our 10 Year Anniversary

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S E R V IC E S Home Improvement DUMPSTERS 10-40 YARDS, Bobcat service, no job too big/small, fully licensed and insured, serving all of Suffolk, Islandwide Industrial Services inc.

631-563-6719,516-852-5686.

J. MAKARIUS CONSTRUCTION Renovations, Kitchens, Windows/Doors, Bathrooms.

Construction Management Services. Since 1980.

631-928-0483. Lic#8477-H. jmakariusconstruction.com PRS CARPENTRY No job too small. Hanging a door, building a house, everything in-between.

Formica kitchens/baths, roofing/siding/decks.

POWER WASHING. Serving North Shore 40 years.

Lic/Ins. 631-744-9741 SUPER HANDYMAN DTA CONTRACTING WE CAN FIX OR BUILD ANYTHING. Kitchens/Baths, Tile Flooring, Doors, Windows/Moulding, Painting; Interior/Exterior, All credit cards accepted.

Senior discount. daveofalltrades @yahoo.com 631-745-9230 Lic#-37878-H/Ins THREE VILLAGE HOME IMPROVEMENT Serving the community for over 30 years. See ad in Home Service Directory.

Rich Beresford, 631-689-3169

Home Repairs/ Construction

Lawn Sprinklers

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ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SPRINKLER TIME!!

Repairs, upgrades, re-routes.

Fast Dependable Service.

Free Estimates, Best prices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do close-Outs for the seasonâ&#x20AC;? Call for an appt.

10% Senior Discounts.

AQUA-FLO SPRINKLERS 631-507-7005

LONG HILL CARPENTRY 40 years experience All phases of home improvement. Old & Historic Restorations. Lic.#H22336/Ins. 631-751-1764 longhill7511764@aol.com

Lawn & Landscaping

Legal Services

LANDCRAFTERS Landscape & Lawn Service.

Shrub Pruning, Weeding, Mulch, Dethatching, Aeration, Seeding, Weekly Maintenance. Free estimates.

Lic/Ins. 631-751-3376. E-Mail landcrafters@optonline.net

JANET Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;HANLON ATTORNEY AT LAW Offering â&#x20AC;&#x153;Estate Planning and Administration; Commercial and Residential Real Estateâ&#x20AC;?

Over 23 years experience.

631-928-8000. E-mail, johanlon@winklerkurtz.com

LANDSCAPES UNLIMITED FALL CLEAN-UPS Property Clean-ups, Tree Removal, Pruning, Landscape Construction, Maintenance, Thatching & Aeration. Free Estimates.

Commercial/Residential Steven Long Lic.#36715-H/Ins. 631-675-6685

Masonry ALL SUFFOLK PAVING & MASONRY Asphalt Paving, Cambridge Paving Stone, Belgium Block Supplied & fitted. All types of drainage work. Free written estimates. Lic#47247-H/Ins. 631-764-9098/631-365-6353 www.allsuffolkpaving.com

PRIVACY HEDGES LIMITED SUPPLY, 6ft Arborvitae, Fast Growing, Reg $129 Now $69, Beautiful, Bushy, Nursery Grown.

FREE Installation/FREE delivery. Other trees available! 844-592-3327 www.lowcosttreefarm.com

Carl Bongiorno Landscape/Mason Contractor All phases masonry work: stone walls, patios, poolscapes. All phases of Landscaping Design. Theme Gardens. Residential & Commercial. Lic/Ins. 631-928-2110

SETAUKET LANDSCAPE & DESIGN Stone Driveways/Walkways, Walls/Stairs/Patios/Masonry, Brickwork/Repairs Land Clearing/Drainage,Grading/Excavating. Plantings/Mulch, Rain Gardens Steve Antos, 631-689-6082 www.setauketlandscape.com.Serving Three Villages

Painting/Spackling/ Wallpaper ALL PRO PAINTING Interior/Exterior. Powerwashing, Staining, Wallpaper Removal. Free estimates.

Lic/Ins #19604HI. 631-696-8150, Nick

SWAN COVE LANDSCAPING Lawn Maintenance, Cleanups, Shrub/Tree Pruning, Removals. Landscape Design/Installation, Ponds/Waterfalls, Stone Walls. Firewood. Free estimates.

Lic/Ins.631-689-8089

BOBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PAINTING SERVICE 25 Years Experience Interior/Exterior Painting, Spackling, Staining, Wall-paper Removal, Powerwashing. Free Estimates. Lic/Ins. #17981, 631-744-8859

Painting/Spackling/ Wallpaper COUNTY-WIDE PAINTING INTERIOR/EXTERIOR Painting/Staining. Quality workmanship. Living/Serving 3 Village Area Over 25 Years.

Lic#37153-H. 631-751-8280 GREG TRINKLE PAINTING & GUTTER CLEANING Powerwashing, window washing, staining. Neat, reliable, 25 years experience. Free Estimates. Lic/Ins.#31398-H 631-331-0976 JAY A. SPILLMANN PAINTING CO. Over 30 years in business.

Spackling/Taping, Wallpaper removal. Quality prep work.

Interior/Exterior.

Lic. #17856-H/Ins. 631-331-3712, 631-525-2206 JOSEPH WALTZ PAINTING Interior/Exterior, Paper Removal, Powerwashing.

Owner Operated since 1981.

Comm/Res. Neat and Reliable. Lic/Ins. Lic# 26603-H. 631-473-2179 LaROTONDA PAINTING & DESIGN Interior/exterior, sheetrock repairs, taping/spackling, wallpaper removal, Faux, decorative finishings. Free estimates.

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Interiors/exteriors. Faux finishes, power-washing, wallpaper removal, sheetrock tape/spackling, carpentry/trimwork. Lead paint certified.

References. Free estimates.

Lic./Ins. SINCE 1989 Ryan Southworth, 631-331-5556

Plumbing/Heating DOUGLAS FERRI PLUMBING & HEATING Lic/Ins. All types of work, small repairs receive special attention. Free estimates, reasonable rates.

631-265-8517

Power Washing

Tree Work

EXTERIOR CLEANING SPECIALISTS Roof cleaning, pressure washing/softwashing, deck restorations, gutter maintenance.

Squeaky Clean Property Solutions 631-387-2156 www.SqueakyCleanli.com

NORTHEAST TREE EXPERTS, INC. Expert Pruning, Stump Grinding, Careful Removals.

Tree/Shrub Fertilization.

Disease/Insect Management.

Certified Arborists.

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SUNLITE PRESSURE WASHING Roofs, Cedar Shakes, Vinyl Siding, Cedar Planks, Patios, Decks. Reasonable rates.

30 years in business Lic.27955-H/Ins. 631-281-1910

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EASTWOOD TREE & LANDSCAPE, INC. Experts in tree care and landscaping. Serving Suffolk County for 25 years.

Lic.#35866H/Ins. 631-928-4070 eastwoodtree.com

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ARBOR-VISTA TREE CARE Complete Tree care service devoted to the care of trees.

Maintenance pruning, waterview work, sun-trimming, elevating, pool areas, storm thinning, large tree removal, stump grinding. Wood chips.

Lic#18902HI. Free estimates.

631-246-5377

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Unsplit firewood For Sale by the truckload.

Bonded employees. Lic/Ins. #8864HI 631-744-1577

ABOVE ALL TREE SERVICE Will Beat ALL Competitors Rates Quality Work at Lowest Prices! *Removal, *Land Clearing. *Large Tree Specialists. Pruning, Topping, Stump Grinding $10 & Up. Bucket Truck, Emergency Service. Lic. #33122-H. & Insured. Located Exit 62 LIE. 631-928-4544 www.abovealltree.com

PROF E S SIONA L & B U SI N E S S Providing solutions to all your home or office computing needs. â&#x20AC;˘ Software and Hardware Installation â&#x20AC;˘ Wireless Home and Office Networking Reasonable â&#x20AC;˘ PC System Upgrades and Repairs Rates, â&#x20AC;˘ Internet, Web, and Email Systems Dependable â&#x20AC;˘ System Troubleshooting Service, â&#x20AC;˘ Software Configuration and Training â&#x20AC;˘ Computer System Tune-Up Plenty of â&#x20AC;˘ Network Design, Setup and Support References â&#x20AC;˘ Backup and Power Failure Safety Systems

RANDALL BROTHERS TREE SERVICE Planting, pruning, removals, stump grinding. Free Estimates. Fully insured. LIC# 50701-H. 631-862-9291

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FULL SERVICE HOME REMODELING serving Nassau and Suffolk Counties, kitchens, bathrooms, siding, roofing, commercial, extensions, decks, complete renovations, general contracting and much more.

Wickman Constructions Inc. Call free estimate 631-846-8811.

Place your ad today Call 631.751.7663 or 631.331.1154

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OpiniOn Editorial

Letter to the editor

File photo above from Lee Zeldin’s office; file photo below by Elana Glowatz

Above, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin speaks at a local press conference where he announced his package of legislation. Below, local communities learn how to administer Narcan.

Photo by Nora Milligan

Lights of Hope, an event in Port Jefferson, helped to remember those lost to drug addiction and celebrate those recovering.

A problem is coursing through Long Island’s veins It’s no time to pass the buck.

When it comes to the rising opioid abuse issue coursing through Long Island’s veins, we want to make sure we continue the open dialogue.

As you finish reading this edition, we hope you reflect on how this growing problem affects you, your family, your friends and everyone else around you — we can’t hide from this.

We need to take a more head-on approach to this medical issue, and accept that it is a medical problem, and not as some say a moral failing.

Parents shouldn’t let the stigma attached to drug or substance abuse keep them from talking about it. If we are to learn and grow and recover, we need to be talking. If we hide from the issue, the results will most certainly be fatal.

This is a problem that requires a collaborative effort, including prevention through education and early identification of at-risk people, enforcement with sharper penalties to dealers and prescription writers and improved rehabilitation resources and strategies. And as this issue should reflect, many groups on the North Shore are dedicated to working together to fight this crisis.

A cooperative combination of all of these things can help get Long Island headed in the right direction. Listed below are several resources if you or a loved one is struggling with substance or drug abuse.

• Suffolk County Substance Abuse Hotline: 631-979-1700 • Hope House Ministries: 631-978-0188 • Response of Suffolk County 24-hour hotline: 631-751-7500 • Prevention Resource Center: 631-650-0135 • Phoenix House’s Edward D. Miller substance abuse treatment center: 844-296-9046 • Samaritan Village’s Suffolk Outpatient Treatment Program: 631-351-7112 • St. Charles Hospital rehab program: 631-474-6233 • New York State HOPEline: 1-877-8-HOPENY • Suffolk County Division of Community Mental Hygiene Services: 631-853-8500 Visit http://www.suffolkcountyny.gov/substanceabuse for a downloadable prevention, treatment and recovery services directory, which gives a list of service agencies and treatment centers on Long Island.

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Lee Zeldin: How I’m working to help solve our opioid addiction crisis Our communities throughout America have been severely impacted by the rise of prescription drug abuse and the growing heroin crisis, especially here in Suffolk County, the most adversely impacted county in New York State.

Since taking office in January 2015, I have been working in the House of Representatives as a member of the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic, to address this looming crisis, which if left unchecked, could have untold consequences for future generations.

Working closely with our local community, and hosting multiple summits and roundtable discussions with local elected officials, law enforcement, health professionals, community groups, parents, concerned residents and those in recovery, we have discussed various ways that we can combat this crisis through a threepronged approach that focuses on treatment, enforcement and education. We have also discussed the importance of supplying the local community with naloxone, or Narcan, a lifesaving medication that is safe and easy to administer, and has been proven to reverse some overdoses within minutes.

In Congress, I have been pushing to advance legislation to help provide our community with the resources we need, which includes

higher supplies of Narcan. However, we must be sure that those who are saved by Narcan are immediately provided with the help they need to fully recover so that they do not just return to using.

One very important piece of legislation that I have dedicated the most amount of my time advocating for passage of is the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which was signed into law in July 2016.

CARA provides a total of $8.3 billion in funding to help combat the heroin and opioid problem. Some provisions of the bill include: $80 million in funding to help prevent and treat addiction on a local level through community-based education, prevention, treatment and recovery programs; $160 million for the expansion of medication-assisted treatment options; and $103 million to establish a community-based competitive grant program to address and treat the problems of heroin and opioid addiction.

The bill will also provide funding necessary to expand prescription drug monitoring across the country and provide funding to supply our local community with higher quantities of naloxone.

Just one of the additional bills that I have been working to advance in the House is the Stop Overdose Stat Act, which I co-

sponsor. The SOS Act would help increase the supply of Narcan by providing an additional $25 million over a five-year period for production and distribution to make sure that medical professionals and families have it in their possession and are trained and ready to administer it. The SOS Act also establishes a preventative research task force to research ways to prevent future overdose deaths, which provides a unique, preventative approach to fight against drug abuse.

Equally important is a focus on enforcement to stop the flow of illegal narcotics into our country.

Providing our law enforcement entities with the resources they need to target drug kingpins and international narcotraffickers will destabilize global drug rings, keeping drugs out of our country, which is why I supported legislation that passed the House to help law enforcement officials identify and target drug traffickers, and allow for easier prosecution of these criminals.

There is not one piece of legislation that will completely solve this crisis, but we must do everything in our power, working with all levels of government and our members of the local community, to change direction and successfully combat this. Together, we can help prevent the tragic loss of life, family and community as a result of addiction through treatment, enforcement and education.

Congressman Lee Zeldin represents the First Congressional District of New York. The Congressman serves as a member of the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic in the House of Representatives, which focuses on finding solutions to this crisis, spreading awareness and increasing educational efforts.

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OpiniOn Imagining a world of What-If possibilities

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e prepare for as many what-if scenarios as we can, hoping we are ready for anything. If a storm comes, do we have enough flashlights, water and canned foods?

Do we know where and when to meet someone if our phones don’t work?

Who do we call if we have a problem with our plumbing, if we can’t start our car or if we suddenly lose cable?

Many of these what-if scenarios involve fixing things

By Daniel Dunaief that don’t work, or planning in case something unpleasant happens which could disrupt our lives. But what about all the positive, rewarding and fulfilling what-if scenarios?

D. None of the above

Rightfully so, we recognize times when we need to play defense, to stop any of the various conflicts that arise from becoming problematic.

The ones I’m describing are the typical plot devices in a book: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. self, man vs. fate.

Sometimes I think we’re so focused on the negative contingency that we don’t spend enough time on the positive ones. What if that pitcher throws my favorite pitch in my favorite spot? What if I have a chance to do exactly what I want to do at work today? What if today is the day when I meet someone whose smile becomes my sunshine?

Are we as ready for those moments as we are for the other ones?

As a baseball and softball coach, I have spent plenty of time in games that allow players’ minds to wander into these what-if scenarios or even to areas unrelated to baseball, like dinner or homework.

These are spectacularly slowquick games. Nothing happens

for long stretches of time. Indeed, recently, at my daughter’s softball game, a pitcher walked seven batters and struck out the side — all in the same inning. That means seven players, other than the pitcher and catcher, never touched a ball for all that time.

That same pitcher, those same hitters and the same fielders could find themselves in completely different conditions in the next inning, with the hitters smacking the ball to every part of the field and each fielder finding an opportunity to make the kind of play that reminds my daughter why she loves this game.

To make those plays, however, the fielders need to be physically and mentally prepared for the what-ifs.

A right fielder might think, “What if someone hits the ball off the end of the bat and I come racing in as soon as the batter hits it, diving to catch the ball at the end of my glove?” Or the hitter might imagine, “What if this incredibly fast pitch comes in and I hit it on

the sweet spot, delivering a gamewinning hit against the league’s strongest pitcher?”

The ball that never seems to come moves too quickly when it finally does arrive to contemplate each decision, the way we might reconsider where to put decorations on a wall. All that thinking, planning and preparing has to happen well before the pitch comes in. I’m not talking about practice, although that’s a big part of success. I’m describing a readiness, a conviction and a commitment to the what-if opportunity that turns dreams and visions into realities.

Fear is an important motivator, getting us to study harder, to make extra calls at work and to keep practicing. Let’s remember what we want, as well as what we don’t want.

Let’s work hard enough for what we want so that we can start our day, our rehearsal, our game or our test with a new set of questions with a different theme: What if I helped make something great happen?

Welcoming contagious guests, or not

H

ave you ever been faced with the dilemma of letting someone who was ill come and visit you?

Perhaps the person was planning to stay only for dinner. Or maybe that person was to be a houseguest for a number of days. You had already extended the invitation, when everyone was healthy, and now you discovered that one of the guests was contagious. You might have had that question

By Leah S. Dunaief considerately put to you by the guest directly. Or you may have discovered in some other way that the person coming was suffering from a contagious bug but was planning to arrive anyway. And you don’t want to appear cowardly. Yet your situation might involve your family’s susceptibilities — your child’s perhaps — or your own health.

Between you and me

What to do?

I had to make such a decision recently about out-of-town guests coming to my house, and I thought about similar stories I’d heard. One such involved a guest who was ill when she came to stay, along with her boyfriend, in the West Coast home of my friend. The host, who told me the story, felt he was significantly at risk, given his health profile, and after a couple of days asked her to go home or to a hotel to recover.

While he might have felt pangs of conscience about his action, he eventually became outraged that she had come into his home sick when he became ill with whatever East Coast bug she had brought him.

Now it is entirely possible to become ill just by being a member of the human race. We give each other germs all the time, and if we weren’t so exposed we could not effectively build up an immune system. People who are overly concerned about contagion, like Howard Hughes, who would not shake hands, are considered extreme. Yet carrying active germs into the sanctity of someone else’s home can give a host pause.

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The issue can arise in the workplace as well. Many times a worker will come to his place of employment even if ill. He may be highly motivated and not wish to miss a few days attending to his responsibilities. Or he can’t afford to miss a day’s pay if he isn’t eligible for sick leave. Or he doesn’t want to let down his colleagues who depend on him. In any event, he pushes through his discomfort, arrives at work and often spreads his germs to the others, who subsequently fall ill. Companies have issued directives urging employees who are ill not to come to work until they have recovered for fear of just that consequence. Workers don’t always heed the message.

Let’s go back to the home front.

There is no hard and fast rule, it seems, only case-by-case determinations. As a host, you have an obligation of hospitality, whether the guests have come from the house down the street or the other coast. You have invited your guests because you like, even love, them and you want to spend more time with them.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuisel MANAGING EDITOR Desirée Keegan EDITOR Desirée Keegan

LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton SPORTS EDITOR Desirée Keegan ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ellen Recker ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathryn Mandracchia

Further, you enjoy having people in your home, sharing food, drink and conversation. You are not only offering something to your guests but also looking forward to your own enjoyment with them. So it is hard to turn them away after you have put out the welcome mat. Your conscience pricks you.

On the other hand, you don’t want to fall ill or cause your family members to become sick. It’s time for that old adage, “No good deed goes unpunished.” Here you are, doing something nice and you may wind up paying for your action in sick days. How do you decide?

Also, if you are the guest who is ill, where are your obligations?

You promised a visit, the host has undoubtedly made preparations that involve shopping and cooking, and now you are cancelling, perhaps at the last minute.

Good communications and understanding between hosts and guests are the keys to any successful future relationship. And maybe we should have doormats that continue to say, “Welcome” but add a line beneath that says, “If you are sick, let’s talk.”

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sports

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Clockwise from above, alec Kiernan rushes up the field; rob Montgomery takes a backward pass from Jay Morwood; shawn McFarland reaches for the ball; and Morwood looks up the field for an open receiver.

Cougars come close to spoiling Huntington’s homecoming The Huntington football team jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the second quarter of its homecoming matchup against Centereach Oct. 1, and it proved to be all the Blue Devils needed, as the team held the Cougars scoreless in the first and third quarters to pull away with a 14-9 victory.

Huntington junior running back Sam Bergman rushed three yards for the game’s first touchdown. Huntington sophomore quarterback John Paci Jr. threw a

Huntington 14 Centereach 9

30-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Taquan GoodenHill in the second quarter, which put Huntington (2-2 in Division II) out in front for good.

Centereach (now 3-2) put its first points on the board as the clock wound down in the same stanza, with a 23-yard field goal kick from senior kicker and wide receiver Rob Montgomery.

Both teams remained scoreless in the third, and the Cougars held off the Blue Devils in the fourth, but managed to break through in the matchup’s final minutes, when Montgomery caught a 7-yard pass from junior quarter-

back Jay Morwood for six points.

The point-after attempt failed.

Paci was just 1-for-5 for 30 yards and a touchdown under center for Huntington, but senior running back Kei’ron Byrams chipped in, completing two of three attempts for 28 yards. Bergman had 42 rushing yards. Huntington senior running back Jared Leake ran for 103 yards on 17 carries.

On the defensive end, Huntington junior tight end and linebacker Anthony McDonald had 10 tackles and a sack, and senior tight end and defensive lineman Josh Hallman had five tackles and a fumble recovery.

— Desirée Keegan