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A northeast Florida doctor has been indicted by a federal grand jury for causing a patient's death by selling an illegal combination of pain…
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Key senators said Tuesday they are moving closer to agreement with the House on a plan to bolster the use of telemedicine --- or, as lawmakers call it,…
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For more than 40 years, there’s been a drug that can stop a heroin overdose in its tracks, if someone gives the drug in time. And it turns out that the…
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The state of Florida recently endured a terrible epidemic; prescription drug abuse. Approximately 7 persons died daily in our state from prescription drug…
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Thirty-year prison sentences were given to the husband-and-wife owners of what officials say was Tampa’s largest pill mill operation, the Tampa Bay Times…
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New laws and a continued crackdown on corrupt doctors helped reduce Florida’s prescription drug deaths significantly a few years ago. However, a new…
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Prescription drug deaths decreased during the first half of 2013 compared to the same period the year before.The report released Thursday by the Florida…
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A crackdown on Medicare fraud in South Florida is pushing illegal prescription drug trafficking north, federal investigators told a U.S. Senate…
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A new report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse says that a heroin “epidemic” is growing in South Florida, citing an increase in deaths.…
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A Tampa-area man has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for sex trafficking on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled that it wasn’t necessary for the…