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A state medical board has agreed to add two more companies to the growing list of vendors authorized to offer a two-hour continuing education course on…
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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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A Florida doctor has been convicted in a woman's fatal opioid overdose.Court records show that Dr. Johnny Clyde Benjamin was found guilty in Fort…
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Facing a rising death toll from drug overdoses, state lawmakers across the country are testing a strategy to boost treatment for opioid addicts: Force…
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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…
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A program to give naloxone overdose-antidote kits and training to front-line officers. Funding for pill disposal boxes in pharmacies, clinics and police…
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Collaboration was key for the 10 emergency rooms that cut opioid prescriptions by 36 percent. Doctors say they now use less addictive medicines to manage pain and have shifted patients' expectations.
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In April 2014, state and federal drug agents raided Jeffrey Campbell’s medical clinic in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Police cars blocked the parking lot as…