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Police on Long Island on the front line of the heroin epidemic

Heroin has developed a frightening grip on Long Island's youth in a way not seen for decades. In part three of News 12 Long Island's Heroin: Addicted on Long Island series, News 12's Eileen Lehpamer rides

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