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Pinellas County opioid deaths are being addressed through CORE, an initiative being slowly rolled out across the state.
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Users can get advice on what kind of care may best serve them and narrow searches based on their personal needs.
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Like fentanyl, eutylone is often mixed with other drugs so people don't realize they're taking it until it's too late.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young who says "fentanyl wasn't in our vocabulary," prior to last weekend.
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She said the state will increase messaging as part of efforts to prevent future mass overdoses.
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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.
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The law could result in methamphetamine dealers facing a death sentence if drugs they distribute kills someone.
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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.