12.12.2017 News East End weeklies announce joint effort to examine the opioid crisis Eastern Long Island’s weekly newspapers have joined together to form the East End News Project for the purpose of reporting and writing stories about one of the most important...
10.30.2017 News Feds create special opioid task force for Long Island A federal task force has been created to tackle the opioid crisis in New York State, home to some of the nation’s highest overdose rates, and it will be...
01.25.2017 News Fentanyl passes heroin as Suffolk County’s deadliest drug To get a sense of just how potent the synthetic opioid fentanyl is, DEA special agent Erin Mulvey explained that one dose is the size of a grain of...
10.29.2016 Columns Column: Suffolk leads charge against a dangerous drug We all know about the horrors of heroin and the addictive pain-killing drug oxycodone, but what do we know about U-47700?
03.14.2016 News Jack Thilberg named Island’s top cop Detective Sergeant Jack Thilberg, who led a five month investigation with multiple law enforcement agencies into the distribution of narcotics on the East End, which led to three arrests,...