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The Florida Department of Health will be required to develop and distribute an educational pamphlet regarding the use of non-opioid alternatives to treat…
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A new study by University of Florida researchers questions the accuracy of the criteria used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to identify…
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Legislation aiming to expand Miami-Dade’s successful needle exchange program to other counties is advancing through the Senate. The three-year-old...
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Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate could give patients more control over how they're treated for pain.
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About one in four Florida health care providers failed to take a two-hour continuing education course on proper opioid prescribing by the required Jan....
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Researchers sketched a vivid line Friday linking the dollars spent by drugmakers to woo doctors around the country to a vast opioid epidemic that has led…
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Incoming Gov. Ron DeSantis bemoaned Medicaid costs while in Congress and while on the campaign trail, but he is being asked by some members of his…
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Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma will chair a new statewide working group on opioid addiction.Lemma will lead Attorney General-elect Ashley Moody’s…
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A retired Boynton Beach paramedic is on a mission to save as many opioid overdose victims as he can.
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This medicine to treat opioid addiction is hard to come by — only a fraction of doctors can prescribe it. So some people trying to quit a heroin habit are turning to the black market for help.