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Long Island website helps recovering addicts come forward

Heroin has developed a frightening grip on Long Island's youth in a way not seen for decades. But how can people in recovery fight the stigma of addiction? In part six of News 12 Long Island's Heroin:

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Oct 2, 2014, 9:00 AM

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