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{"585D30B4-5056-A066-6036-7E1DFD4CB429":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"585D30B4-5056-A066-6036-7E1DFD4CB429","title":"Schumer at Batavia High School","summary":"Batavia, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"February 16, 2015","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/schumer-at-batavia-high-school","city":"Batavia","county":"Genesee","lat":43.0102323,"lng":-78.18158030000001,"description":"<p><span>On February 16, 2015 Schumer urged the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to add new synthetic drug chemical combinations that have emerged over the past several years – and sickened Batavia students – to its list of banned controlled substances. Schumer said that despite efforts to limit synthetic drugs and other hazardous drug-like products, they are still being sold online and on store shelves. Schumer said these synthetic drugs are making kids sick, citing recent incidents at Batavia High School where four kids became severely ill and went to the hospital early this school year after experimenting with a synthetic drug called “Cloud 9,” and a separate incident in December 2014 where two students from Churchville-Chili School District in Monroe County were hospitalized after using synthetic drugs laced in an e-cigarette. These drugs can lead to seizures, hallucinations, high blood pressure, rapid heart rate, and panic attacks, as well as dangerous and erratic behavior, which is why Schumer sponsored and passed a bill in 2012 that enhanced the DEA's enforcement power to ban many forms of these chemicals. Schumer said that the DEA currently has identified around 300 unique synthetic drug chemicals, but they have not yet added the majority of them to their list of controlled substances.</span></p>"}}

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