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Prescription drug database makes sense
Watertown Daily Times
March 2, 2012

Currently in New York, doctors and pharmacies have no way of checking whether they are being used to overprescribe drugs to an addict relying on numerous providers to feed an addiction or, in the case of a trafficker, an illegal business. That would change with passage of legislation promoted by state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman.

Editorial: Pass bill on drugs now
Press-Republican
March 1, 2012

The Press-Republican joins the growing chorus in support of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's proposal to assault the state's disastrous prescription-drug-abuse problem.

Toughen drug regulation
The Buffalo News
February 8, 2012

The growing scourge of addiction to prescription painkillers is striking a nerve statewide, and that signals hope for long-stalled efforts to develop a better tracking system.

Drug Epidemic : Legislature should pass prescription drug abuse bill
Syracuse Post Standard
January 27, 2012

Last spring, Oswego police found more than 650 pills — including oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone — $2,000 in cash and items used to transport and distribute drugs in a Volney home. 

Tighten drug laws 
The Buffalo News
January 16, 2012

The pharmacy shootings that left five innocents and one robber dead on Long Island in the past six months are the dramatic tragedies, the ones in which the heartache is publicized. 

Act to stop painkiller epidemic
Newsday
January 11, 2012

The pharmacy shootings that left five innocents and one robber dead on Long Island in the past six months are the dramatic tragedies, the ones in which the heartache is publicized. 

Oxycodone Prescriptions Rose Sharply in New York
New York Times
January 11, 2012

In a stark depiction of the rapid spread of prescription drug use and abuse in New York State, a new report shows that prescriptions for oxycodone, a widely prescribed narcotic painkiller, rose by 82 percent from 2007 to 2010.

Report: Oxycodone prescriptions skyrocket
Newsday
January 10, 2012

Prescriptions for oxycodone, an opiate painkiller, skyrocketed by 82 percent across New York State from 2007 through 2010, according to a new report by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.