drug overdoses

Pinellas County opioid deaths are being addressed through CORE, an initiative being slowly rolled out across the state.

Users can get advice on what kind of care may best serve them and narrow searches based on their personal needs.

Like fentanyl, eutylone is often mixed with other drugs so people don't realize they're taking it until it's too late.

Know-how gained through the pandemic is seeping into other public health areas. But in a nation that has chronically underfunded its public health system, it’s hard to know which changes will stick.

The initiative, which includes the first statewide director of opioid recovery, is based on a pilot treatment program in Palm Beach County that state health officials touted as a success.

These steps follow recent deaths in Gadsden County from fentanyl overdoses that prompted first lady Casey DeSantis to call for a meeting to work out strategies to promote increased awareness.

It's not the only one that’s happened recently, as four West Point cadets overdosed after ingesting Fentanyl that was likely mislabeled as something else.

Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young who says "fentanyl wasn't in our vocabulary," prior to last weekend.

She said the state will increase messaging as part of efforts to prevent future mass overdoses.

It was a deadly weekend involving drugs in Gadsden County. The sheriff’s office handled a spike of fentanyl overdoses, most of them on Friday. Nine people died.

The law could result in methamphetamine dealers facing a death sentence if drugs they distribute kills someone.

The order targeted drugs known as nitazenes, which Moody’s office said have been linked since 2022 to at least 15 deaths in Florida, including five reported by the Pasco-Pinellas medical examiner.