opioids

A Leon County program to treat substance abuse is going regional. DISC Village will soon be adding 6 new counties to its service area.One of the more…

Florida lawmakers want to create a task force to crackdown on the state’s opioid epidemic.Merrit Island Republican Representative Tyler Sirois(Sa-Roy)…

Lawmakers last session limited the prescription for a Schedule II opioid to a maximum 7-day supply, but one representative says they forgot…

Legislation aiming to expand Miami-Dade’s successful needle exchange program to other counties is advancing through the Senate. The three-year-old program…

A law that went into effect last July requires medical providers to check a statewide database before prescribing opioids for patients. Now, lawmakers are…

With a new opioid law in effect, Florida health officials are educating the public on some of the new changes through a new campaign.The campaign is…

One of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s top priorities is cracking down on drugs. And, during a recent Florida Cabinet meeting, she invited a young rapper to…

Florida’s U-S Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson have added a bipartisan proposal to a nationwide opioid bill that could go before the Senate.The U.S.…

This week, members of Congress grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about a data privacy scandal where millions of Facebook users data were compromised by…

Florida could soon be filing its own opioid abuse lawsuit against drug manufacturers. They’d be joining a long list of states, counties, and cities that…