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Northeast Florida is the hardest-hit part of the state by the opioid epidemic, according to new data presented at a conference in Lake Nona this week....
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Figures from a U.S. government survey released Friday show some progress in the fight against the ongoing opioid addiction crisis with fewer people in...
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A Palm Beach Post investigation has uncovered Florida's role in igniting the country’s heroin epidemic in 2011. The state’s repeated failure to control...
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An internet black market used by some Floridians to buy and sell heroin and fentanyl has been shut down in an international law enforcement operation.
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A new report from Florida medical examiners finds fentanyl caused more deaths than any other drug in Florida last year.
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Florida lawmakers are cracking down on the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Legislation punishing its possession is heading to the governor.
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Deaths from heroin and fentanyl overdoses have more than doubled in unincorporated Orange County.
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Grappling with a deadly drug scourge across the state, Florida senators Tuesday had an impassioned debate about whether the state should require...
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A bill aimed at criminalizing the deadly drug fentanyl is heading to the Senate floor. The measure comes as the Legislature is struggling to respond to...
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According to official records, more than 1,000 people in South Florida overdosed last year on opioids including heroin and carfentanil -- a drug so...
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Emergency room doctors are just beginning to study a new kind of casualty in the opioid epidemic — patients who survive an overdose, but walk away with brain damage, kidney failure or dead muscle.
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Both prescription and illegal opioids are driving a national spike in overdose deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control, they were involved...