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New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver have announced an agreement on a program to track the prescription of legal narcotic drugs in the state and curb the abuse of those substances through what is known as the I-STOP program. WAMC's Brian Shields spoke with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who proposed the program earlier this year.