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March 3, 2016

Gowanda teen: Heroin nearly destroyed her life

OLEAN — “Heroin is very easy and cheap to get,” Megan Irish, a 17-year-old Gowanda student, told members of the Cattaraugus County Board of Health on Wednesday as she described

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