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Florence SnyderApril 12, 2017

When Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi finally got around to talking about Florida’s opioid crisis, the hot air was suffocating. In parts of Florida, opioids have overtaken homicides and DUIs as a cause of very premature and utterly unnecessary death. That is not breaking news to anyone who has been paying even […]

Larry GriffinMarch 14, 2016

After eight months of investigations, the Orange County Heroin Task Force concluded Monday morning with a public meeting at the county administration building. The meeting ended with a pledge by Mayor Teresa Jacobs to begin work immediately on a set of recommendations to help curb the county’s severe heroin epidemic. Last year, there were 101 heroin-related […]

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Florence Snyder: Florida’s opioid crisis, Part 4 – Showtime at the Kabuki Theater

Orange County begins next step on curbing heroin epidemic