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Staller Center’s season resumes
also: emma S. Clark Memorial Library to host Long Island premiere screening of thriller ‘Distiller’
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East splits week with win and loss
Photos by Bill Landon
Smithtown considers fixing vehicle fleet
Comptroller Donald Musgnug pitches plan that could overhaul transport
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Before losing to riverhead, dropping the top league iii spot, the Smithtown east girls’ basketball team pulled through in the final seconds of Saturday’s nonleague game against lindenhurst to come out with a 54-50 victory. above left, abby Zeitsiff and, above right, ceili williams score layups in the win. See story and more photos on page A10.
Drug counseling service comes to Smithtown By phil corSo
The fight against drug abuse has a new home in Smithtown. In response to a multiyear surge of heroin and opiate pill use across the North Shore and greater Long Island, CN Guidance & Counseling Services, which works on addressing substance use and mental health disorders, has launched outpatient detoxification and withdrawal support services to residents of Smithtown. Two new sites — one at Horizons Counseling & Education Center at 161 East Main St. in Smithtown and the other at CN Guidance’s main of-
fice at 950 S. Oyster Bay Road in Hicksville — have begun delivering a combination of services to local residents addicted to opiates. The services, supported by funds from both county governments, include assessment, detoxification, symptom relief with addiction medications, monitoring of vital signs and instant connection to longer-term treatment and relapse prevention. Heroin killed a record-high 144 people on Long Island in 2013, a death toll increasing 91 percent in Nassau County and 163 percent in Suffolk County since just 2010, CN said in a COUNSeLINg continued on page a8
Photo by Jared Cantor
cn guidance & counseling Services is setting up shop at horizons counseling & education center on main Street in Smithtown.