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AG: LI center of NY prescription epidemic

N.Y. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman explains plans to create a database to monitor drug prescriptions, prevent abuse, protect the pharmacy community and help law enforcement. Videojournalist: Jim Staubitser (Feb. 21, 2012)

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was on Long Island Tuesday -- the place he called "the center of the state's prescription drug epidemic," to gain support for a bill to better monitor who is using narcotic medicine.

"It's time to take action before another tragedy strikes," Schneiderman said at a news conference at the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence in Mineola....

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