Peter SchorschMarch 26, 2019
6min553
Why do we still prefer old fashioned pen and paper prescriptions?
Tag: opioids
Peter SchorschMarch 26, 2019
Staff ReportsJanuary 31, 2019
6min398
Florida continues to struggle with the opioid epidemic.
Ryan NicolJanuary 24, 2019
4min574
Nationwide, opioid deaths constituted 68 percent of overdose deaths in 2017.
Ryan NicolJanuary 7, 2019
6min462
A bipartisan push is behind legislation that would allow for the expansion of Miami-Dade County’s needle exchange program throughout the rest of the state. The bill (HB 171) for the 2019 Legislative Session was filed Monday by state Reps. Shevrin Jones, a West Park Democrat, and Rene “Coach P” Plasencia, an Orlando Republican. In 2016, the Infectious […]
Scott PowersJanuary 2, 2019
2min474
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma will chair the Transition Advisory Committee Working Group on Opioid Abuse for Florida Attorney General-elect Ashley Moody. Lemma will work closely with Moody and others to gather information on best practices to stop the influx of opioids, raise awareness, and reduce the death toll of the crisis that claims 14 […]
Peter SchorschNovember 19, 2018
9min296
Consider this column an “open letter” of sorts to the Florida Department of Health. First, do no harm. Got that? Though those words are not actually printed in the Hippocratic Oath, but it’s still an important medical axiom. Here’s the deal. The feds recently passed a new law known as “Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes […]
Scott PowersJuly 24, 2018
6min347
Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan has launched an attack ad against his Democratic election opponent David Shapiro with blistering references to the Sarasota lawyer’s investments in gun companies, opioid drug companies, and companies tied to the Deepwater Horizon off-shore oil disaster. The new 30-second TV commercial, “Two-Faced,” outlines Shapiro’s investments while calling him two-faced and […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 7, 2018
2min208
Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, a Fort Myers Republican who chairs the Rules Committee, shepherded her bill designed to curb opioid abuse through that panel Wednesday. SB 8 calls for a three-day prescription limit for acute pain, with a seven-day limit allowed in cases of medical necessity. The House version (HB 21) still has a committee stop; Rules was […]
Danny McAuliffeJanuary 22, 20187min473
Regulations seeking to curb the state’s opioid crisis are moving swiftly through the Legislature, but some medical professionals worry the legislation will financially — and potentially physically — harm patients diagnosed with acute pain. HB 21, sponsored by Bradenton Republican Rep. Jim Boyd, would limit opioid prescriptions in Florida to a three-day supply or a […]
Ana CeballosJanuary 18, 2018
4min358
Two years after a state law established a sterile needle and syringe exchange pilot program in Miami-Dade County, lawmakers are trying to expand the single-county program to other parts of the state. In an effort to abate a growing opioid epidemic, state Rep. Shevrin Jones said his bill would act a “liaison” to myriad of […]