opioid

From medical professionals to law enforcement to recovering addicts, the opioid crisis has affected people from all walks of life.At a University of South…

Florida may be on the right track to reducing the amount of opioid-caused deaths, according to the Department of Children and Families, but only if that…

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday formally received 22 bills from the Legislature, including a measure that Attorney General Ashley Moody has sought to help...

A Senate Democrat on Thursday filed a proposal that would allow public schools to buy a type of drug that is used to treat people who have overdosed on...

The opioid crisis is affecting communities of all sizes across the country. In one example, Haines City has equipped all officers in its police department…

Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, in which people are encouraged to clean out their old prescriptions and properly dispose them. The Hillsborough…

Saying it is critical to “stop the addiction in the beginning,” Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed a high-profile bill designed to prevent patients from...

A program to give naloxone overdose-antidote kits and training to front-line officers. Funding for pill disposal boxes in pharmacies, clinics and police...

State legislators came to Palm Beach County Tuesday to discuss the opioid crisis.

Of the three medications that treat opioid addiction, one got more attention in the Florida Legislature this year.

Gov. Rick Scott has declared a public health emergency across Florida for the opioid epidemic.

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.