opioids

The plan is for health departments in all 67 counties to have kits with two Narcan nasal sprays that can be administered without a health care provider.

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.

Families in Palm Beach County hoped protesting would convince Sheriff Ric Bradshaw to equip his deputies with Narcan. Their pleas haven't worked — until now.

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 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.

Attorney General Ashley Moody’s lawsuit contends five hospital districts, by pursuing separate claims against pharmaceutical industry companies, are jeopardizing settlements her office has reached.

Some physicians say administering anti-addiction medication as a monthly injection holds tremendous potential. So, why aren’t more patients getting it?

Three years after a government site launched to connect Americans to treatment, finding addiction care is still a struggle.

The Florida Legislature balked this year at a bill that would decriminalize fentanyl test devices, which remain illegal in about half of the states under drug paraphernalia laws adopted decades ago, drug policy experts say.

Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office claims five public hospital systems and the Miami-Dade school board are jeopardizing settlements with pharmaceutical companies over the opioid epidemic.

The state contends that Walgreens has been an integral part of the opioid epidemic. Opening statements are set for early next week. The pharmacy chain says it will not settle.