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Rockland Drug Abuse Seminar Draws Large Crowd
PEARL RIVER, N.Y. -- "Your families would rather visit you in state prison than arrange for your funeral," said Judge Charles Apotheker, speaking to a large audience that packed the Pearl River Hilton to listen to a panel on drug addition Wednesday evening. The Judge, who presides over the Rockland County Misdemeanor Drug Court Program, did not mince his words.
"Yes, it's a difficult 18-month program, but at the end of the line, you have a life."
Apotheker, along with a recovered drug addict, the mother of a heroin user, and others from the law enforcement community, pa…