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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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