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Feb. 27, 2015
Governor Cuomo Announces $8 Million to Combat Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse Among Young Adults Statewide
Sen. Chuck Schumer, ...
Feb. 23, 2015
With Devastatingly Dangerous Heroin, Like 'China White', Now Being Widely Peddled In New York & Overdoses Rapidly Rising, Schumer Moves To Reverse President's Cut In Critical Drug Trafficking Program; Urges Senate To Reject President's Budget Request & Raise HIDTA Funding By $100M
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Feb. 18, 2015
Schumer: Families Across Binghamton & S. Tier Are Moving Into Homes Once Used As Meth Labs & Do Not Even Know It. Remnants Of Chemicals Make Homes Potentially Hazardous To Health - Schumer Announces First-Ever Fed Law Requiring Homeowners To Alert Buyers Or Renters That Home Was Once Used To Make Meth
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Feb. 17, 2015
Schumer: War On Heroin Is Raging In Oneida County And The Feds Need To Get More Involved - Senator Launches Push To Designate County As High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, Which Will Mean Additional Resources, Technical Assistance, Intelligence, And Coordination To Help Disrupt Drug Rings & Beat Back Heroin Epidemic
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Feb. 16, 2015
Schumer Urges Feds To Ban Sale Of New, Dangerous Synthetic Drugs Such As 'Cloud 9' That Have Cropped Up In Batavia Schools & Recently Sent 4 Local Students To The Hospital - Many Synthetic Drugs Shockingly Are Still Legal Despite Serious Health Concerns
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Feb. 16, 2015
Schumer: Families Across WNY Are Moving Into Homes Once Used As Meth Labs & Do Not Even Know it; Remnants Of Chemicals Make Homes Potentially Hazardous To Health - Schumer Announces First-Ever Fed Law Requiring Home Sellers And Landlords To Alert Buyers Or Renters That Home Was Once Used To Make Meth
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Feb. 10, 2015
Following Several Tragic Deaths, Schumer Calls On The FDA To Ban Powdered Caffeine - One Teaspoon Of Concentrated Powdered Caffeine Is Equivalent to 25 Cups of Coffee & Is Highly Dangerous For Teens & Young Adults
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Jan. 28, 2015
Gillibrand Introduces Loretta Lynch During Senate Judiciary Committee Attorney General Confirmation Hearing
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Dec. 23, 2014
Letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services - Opioid Abuse
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Dec. 22, 2014
Letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - More Needs to be Done to Address Heroin Epidemic
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Dec. 1, 2014
Letter to Eric Holder, US Attorney General - Calling for Emergency Anti-Drug Trafficking Funding Surge to Combat Heroin Problem
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Dec. 1, 2014
With Heroin Usage Skyrocketing in Capital Region, Schumer Calls for Emergency Anti-Drug Trafficking Funding Surge to Combat Problem
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Dec. 1, 2014
Letter to Barbara Mikulski, Chairman, and Richard Shelby, Vice Chairman, of the Senate Appropriations Committee - Calling for Emergency Anti-Drug Trafficking Funding Surge to Combat Heroin Problem
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Nov. 17, 2014
March Toward a More Perfect Union
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
Nov. 10, 2014
Rep. Jeffries Statement on Change in Minor Marijuana Possession Arrest Policy
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
Oct. 27, 2014
Letter to Eric Holder, US Attorney General - Dept. of Justice Review of How 'Dark Web' Drug Sales Continue to Grow
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Oct. 27, 2014
Letter to Eric Holder, Attorney General - Allow Emergency Access to Medical Marijuana Treatments in New York
Rep. Yvette Clarke, ...
Oct. 27, 2014
Schumer Calls for Top to Bottom Dept. of Justice Review of How 'Dark Web' Drug Sales Continue to Grow
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Oct. 23, 2014
Press Republican - Congressional Candidates Fire Off on Border Issues
Rep. Elise Stefanik, ...
Sept. 29, 2014
Schumer Announces, After His Push, New Crime Fighting Resources Coming to Chautauqua County With Designation of County as "High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area"
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Sept. 29, 2014
Letter to Eric Holder, Attorney General - rant New York A Medical Marijuana Waiver
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Sept. 24, 2014
Letter to Michele Leonhart, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Prohibiting Sale of New Types of Dangerous Synethetic Drugs
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Sept. 24, 2014
Schumer Urges Feds to Prohibit Sale of New Types of Dangerous Synethetic Drugs
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Sept. 22, 2014
Letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Ensure Access to All Available Addiction Therapies
Rep. Paul Tonko, ...
Sept. 8, 2014
Schumer Announces, After His Push, DEA Has Finalized Rx Drug Disposal Regulations
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 21, 2014
Schumer: DEA Approval of Fed Intervention is Critical to Rein In Epidemic of Abuse & Preserve Appropriate Patient Access
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 12, 2014
Senator Calls on FDA to Investigate Current Situation, Proactively Address Drug Shortages
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 12, 2014
Letter to Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration - Looming Shortage of Doxycycline, Used to Treat Lyme Disease
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 5, 2014
Letter to Michael Botticelli, National Director of Drug Control Policy - Drug Trafficking
Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 13, 2014
Schumer: We Must Provide Money & Intel To Help Chautauqua Battle Heroin Scourge
Sen. Chuck Schumer
May 30, 2014
NY1: Advocates Upset About High Arrest Numbers in Black, Latino Areas for Marijuana Possession
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
May 28, 2014
Letter to Barbara Mikulski, Chairwoman, Richard Shelby, Ranking Member, of the Senate Appropriations Committee - Heroin Usage
Sen. Chuck Schumer
May 27, 2014
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries And Community Advocates Call On NYPD Commissioner Bratton To Reform Marijuana Arrest Policy
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
April 23, 2014
Letter to Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration - Recognize Naloxene as a Safe and Effective Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug for Over-the-Counter Use
Rep. Paul Tonko, ...
March 5, 2014
Schumer Calls for First Statewide Heroin Database - Lack of Information Hinders NY Law Enforcement's Ability to Combat Heroin Crisis: Drugstat Will Allow Local Cops, Hospitals, and Toxicologists to Track Crimes and Overdose Patterns
Sen. Chuck Schumer
March 3, 2014
Letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary Department of Health and Human Services - Overturn Confounding FDA Decision Allowing New Super-drug to Hit Market without Protections to Prevent Abuse
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Feb. 12, 2014
Tonko Hosts Niskayuna Community Action Program in Washington
Rep. Paul Tonko
Jan. 27, 2014
Letter to Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy - Making Duchess County a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Oct. 21, 2013
Schumer: Drug Buyback Programs Reduce Crime, Safely Dispose of Dangerous Drugs & Save Lives
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Oct. 18, 2013
Schumer: Drug Buyback Programs Safely Dispose of Dangerous Drugs, Eliminate Easy- Access to Unused Meds & Save Lives
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Sept. 23, 2013
With Three People Recently Killed in NYC by Overdose: Schumer Pushes New Plan to Curtail Use of Increasingly Dangerous and Popular Club Drug "Molly" - Immediate Steps would Increase Enforcement and Make It Harder to Manufacturer and Obtain
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Sept. 16, 2013
Schumer: Across Capital Region, Prescription Drug Abuse is Up & Criminals Are Stealing Rx Drugs During Home Burglaries; Urges DEA to Cut Red Tape That Now Prevents Pharmacies & Communities From Hosting Drug Take-Back Events, And to Ad Extra Incentive By Funding Buyback Programs
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Sept. 10, 2013
Schumer Announces FDA Has Heeded His Call to Issue New Labeling Requirements for Opiates - Move Will Help Combat the Alarming Trend of Babies Born Addicted to Prescription Drugs or Other Opiates
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 9, 2013
Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Department of Justice - DEA Surveillance Allegations
Rep. Jerry Nadler, ...
June 12, 2013
Letter to Nancy Simpher, Chancellor of NYU, and Laura Anglin, President of CICU - Study Drugs
Sen. Chuck Schumer
May 9, 2013
Huffington Post - Over-Criminalization Task Force in House Could Rethink Drug Laws
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
April 30, 2013
Schumer: Key to Stopping Growing Heroin Use in the Rochester Region is Stopping Original Use of Over-Prescribed Painkillers
Sen. Chuck Schumer
April 29, 2013
Schumer: Key to Stopping Growing Heroin Use in the Capital Region is Stopping Original Use of Over- Prescribed Painkillers
Sen. Chuck Schumer
April 18, 2013
Letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - U.S.-Colombia Policy
Rep. Paul Tonko, ...
April 3, 2013
Schumer: Key to Stopping Growing Heroin Use in the Hudson Valley is Stopping Original Use of Over-Prescribed Painkillers
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Date
Title
Politician
Feb. 27, 2015
Governor Cuomo Announces $8 Million to Combat Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse Among Young Adults Statewide
Sen.Chuck Schumer, ...
Feb. 23, 2015
With Devastatingly Dangerous Heroin, Like 'China White', Now Being Widely Peddled In New York & Overdoses Rapidly Rising, Schumer Moves To Reverse President's Cut In Critical Drug Trafficking Program; Urges Senate To Reject President's Budget Request & Raise HIDTA Funding By $100M
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Feb. 18, 2015
Schumer: Families Across Binghamton & S. Tier Are Moving Into Homes Once Used As Meth Labs & Do Not Even Know It. Remnants Of Chemicals Make Homes Potentially Hazardous To Health - Schumer Announces First-Ever Fed Law Requiring Homeowners To Alert Buyers Or Renters That Home Was Once Used To Make Meth
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Feb. 17, 2015
Schumer: War On Heroin Is Raging In Oneida County And The Feds Need To Get More Involved - Senator Launches Push To Designate County As High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, Which Will Mean Additional Resources, Technical Assistance, Intelligence, And Coordination To Help Disrupt Drug Rings & Beat Back Heroin Epidemic
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Feb. 16, 2015
Schumer Urges Feds To Ban Sale Of New, Dangerous Synthetic Drugs Such As 'Cloud 9' That Have Cropped Up In Batavia Schools & Recently Sent 4 Local Students To The Hospital - Many Synthetic Drugs Shockingly Are Still Legal Despite Serious Health Concerns
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Feb. 16, 2015
Schumer: Families Across WNY Are Moving Into Homes Once Used As Meth Labs & Do Not Even Know it; Remnants Of Chemicals Make Homes Potentially Hazardous To Health - Schumer Announces First-Ever Fed Law Requiring Home Sellers And Landlords To Alert Buyers Or Renters That Home Was Once Used To Make Meth
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Feb. 10, 2015
Following Several Tragic Deaths, Schumer Calls On The FDA To Ban Powdered Caffeine - One Teaspoon Of Concentrated Powdered Caffeine Is Equivalent to 25 Cups of Coffee & Is Highly Dangerous For Teens & Young Adults
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Jan. 28, 2015
Gillibrand Introduces Loretta Lynch During Senate Judiciary Committee Attorney General Confirmation Hearing
Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand
Dec. 23, 2014
Letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services - Opioid Abuse
Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Dec. 22, 2014
Letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - More Needs to be Done to Address Heroin Epidemic
Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Dec. 1, 2014
Letter to Eric Holder, US Attorney General - Calling for Emergency Anti-Drug Trafficking Funding Surge to Combat Heroin Problem
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Dec. 1, 2014
With Heroin Usage Skyrocketing in Capital Region, Schumer Calls for Emergency Anti-Drug Trafficking Funding Surge to Combat Problem
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Dec. 1, 2014
Letter to Barbara Mikulski, Chairman, and Richard Shelby, Vice Chairman, of the Senate Appropriations Committee - Calling for Emergency Anti-Drug Trafficking Funding Surge to Combat Heroin Problem
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Nov. 17, 2014
March Toward a More Perfect Union
Rep.Hakeem Jeffries
Nov. 10, 2014
Rep. Jeffries Statement on Change in Minor Marijuana Possession Arrest Policy
Rep.Hakeem Jeffries
Oct. 27, 2014
Letter to Eric Holder, US Attorney General - Dept. of Justice Review of How 'Dark Web' Drug Sales Continue to Grow
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Oct. 27, 2014
Letter to Eric Holder, Attorney General - Allow Emergency Access to Medical Marijuana Treatments in New York
Rep.Yvette Clarke, ...
Oct. 27, 2014
Schumer Calls for Top to Bottom Dept. of Justice Review of How 'Dark Web' Drug Sales Continue to Grow
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Oct. 23, 2014
Press Republican - Congressional Candidates Fire Off on Border Issues
Rep.Elise Stefanik, ...
Sept. 29, 2014
Schumer Announces, After His Push, New Crime Fighting Resources Coming to Chautauqua County With Designation of County as "High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area"
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Sept. 29, 2014
Letter to Eric Holder, Attorney General - rant New York A Medical Marijuana Waiver
Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Sept. 24, 2014
Letter to Michele Leonhart, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Prohibiting Sale of New Types of Dangerous Synethetic Drugs
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Sept. 24, 2014
Schumer Urges Feds to Prohibit Sale of New Types of Dangerous Synethetic Drugs
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Sept. 22, 2014
Letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Ensure Access to All Available Addiction Therapies
Rep.Paul Tonko, ...
Sept. 8, 2014
Schumer Announces, After His Push, DEA Has Finalized Rx Drug Disposal Regulations
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 21, 2014
Schumer: DEA Approval of Fed Intervention is Critical to Rein In Epidemic of Abuse & Preserve Appropriate Patient Access
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 12, 2014
Senator Calls on FDA to Investigate Current Situation, Proactively Address Drug Shortages
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 12, 2014
Letter to Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration - Looming Shortage of Doxycycline, Used to Treat Lyme Disease
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 5, 2014
Letter to Michael Botticelli, National Director of Drug Control Policy - Drug Trafficking
Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 13, 2014
Schumer: We Must Provide Money & Intel To Help Chautauqua Battle Heroin Scourge
Sen.Chuck Schumer
May 30, 2014
NY1: Advocates Upset About High Arrest Numbers in Black, Latino Areas for Marijuana Possession
Rep.Hakeem Jeffries
May 28, 2014
Letter to Barbara Mikulski, Chairwoman, Richard Shelby, Ranking Member, of the Senate Appropriations Committee - Heroin Usage
Sen.Chuck Schumer
May 27, 2014
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries And Community Advocates Call On NYPD Commissioner Bratton To Reform Marijuana Arrest Policy
Rep.Hakeem Jeffries
April 23, 2014
Letter to Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration - Recognize Naloxene as a Safe and Effective Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug for Over-the-Counter Use
Rep.Paul Tonko, ...
March 5, 2014
Schumer Calls for First Statewide Heroin Database - Lack of Information Hinders NY Law Enforcement's Ability to Combat Heroin Crisis: Drugstat Will Allow Local Cops, Hospitals, and Toxicologists to Track Crimes and Overdose Patterns
Sen.Chuck Schumer
March 3, 2014
Letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary Department of Health and Human Services - Overturn Confounding FDA Decision Allowing New Super-drug to Hit Market without Protections to Prevent Abuse
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Feb. 12, 2014
Tonko Hosts Niskayuna Community Action Program in Washington
Rep.Paul Tonko
Jan. 27, 2014
Letter to Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy - Making Duchess County a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Oct. 21, 2013
Schumer: Drug Buyback Programs Reduce Crime, Safely Dispose of Dangerous Drugs & Save Lives
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Oct. 18, 2013
Schumer: Drug Buyback Programs Safely Dispose of Dangerous Drugs, Eliminate Easy- Access to Unused Meds & Save Lives
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Sept. 23, 2013
With Three People Recently Killed in NYC by Overdose: Schumer Pushes New Plan to Curtail Use of Increasingly Dangerous and Popular Club Drug "Molly" - Immediate Steps would Increase Enforcement and Make It Harder to Manufacturer and Obtain
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Sept. 16, 2013
Schumer: Across Capital Region, Prescription Drug Abuse is Up & Criminals Are Stealing Rx Drugs During Home Burglaries; Urges DEA to Cut Red Tape That Now Prevents Pharmacies & Communities From Hosting Drug Take-Back Events, And to Ad Extra Incentive By Funding Buyback Programs
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Sept. 10, 2013
Schumer Announces FDA Has Heeded His Call to Issue New Labeling Requirements for Opiates - Move Will Help Combat the Alarming Trend of Babies Born Addicted to Prescription Drugs or Other Opiates
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 9, 2013
Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Department of Justice - DEA Surveillance Allegations
Rep.Jerry Nadler, ...
June 12, 2013
Letter to Nancy Simpher, Chancellor of NYU, and Laura Anglin, President of CICU - Study Drugs
Sen.Chuck Schumer
May 9, 2013
Huffington Post - Over-Criminalization Task Force in House Could Rethink Drug Laws
Rep.Hakeem Jeffries
April 30, 2013
Schumer: Key to Stopping Growing Heroin Use in the Rochester Region is Stopping Original Use of Over-Prescribed Painkillers
Sen.Chuck Schumer
April 29, 2013
Schumer: Key to Stopping Growing Heroin Use in the Capital Region is Stopping Original Use of Over- Prescribed Painkillers
Sen.Chuck Schumer
April 18, 2013
Letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - U.S.-Colombia Policy
Rep.Paul Tonko, ...
April 3, 2013
Schumer: Key to Stopping Growing Heroin Use in the Hudson Valley is Stopping Original Use of Over-Prescribed Painkillers
Sen.Chuck Schumer
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