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		<title>Lawmakers take aim at opioid crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 23:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Senate Appropriations Chair Jack Latvala held a roundtable discussion Tuesday in Palm Beach County with lawmakers, local leaders and public-safety officials to address Florida&#8217;s opioid crisis. Palm Beach County is one of the epicenters of the epidemic. From January through May of this year, the county had 311 opioid overdoses, compared to 258 over the same period in 2016, according to numbers from Latvala&#8217;s office. The county totaled 592 opioid-related deaths in 2016. “This is obviously an issue that is&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rick Scott ceremonially signs legislation to fight opioid abuse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Terry Roen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gov. Rick Scott joined local law enforcement and legislative officials Thursday to ceremonially sign a bill that brings stiffer penalties for dealers of synthetic opioid drugs and fentanyl. The bill cuts through the bureaucracy and allows state officials to immediately draw more than $27 million in federal grant money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Opioid State Targeted Response Grant, awarded to Florida April 21. Republican state Rep. Mike Miller, who co-sponsored the bill with Republican state&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Florida bolsters response to opioid-addiction crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2017 08:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency Wednesday to combat opioid abuse in the state, where he said the number of overdose deaths has reached epidemic proportions. Scott&#8217;s executive order will free up nearly $30 million in federal funds for prevention, treatment and recovery services. And it comes as a series of workshops focused on addressing the opioid abuse crisis launch in the state&#8217;s hardest-hit areas. &#8220;I know firsthand how heartbreaking substance abuse can be to a family&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Florence Snyder: Florida&#8217;s opioid crisis, Part 4 – Showtime at the Kabuki Theater</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Florence Snyder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi finally got around to talking about Florida&#8217;s opioid crisis, the hot air was suffocating. In parts of Florida, opioids have overtaken homicides and DUIs as a cause of very premature and utterly unnecessary death. That is not breaking news to anyone who has been paying even a little attention. In a time when reporters are in short supply, almost every newspaper in Florida has made a noble, front-page attempt to assess&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pain, pain, go away: Finding a middle ground in Florida&#8217;s opioid epidemic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darryl Paulson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opioid abuse is a growing medical problem in the nation and in Florida. In 2015, 52,404 Americans died as a result of drug abuse, or about 142 individuals every day. This makes opioid abuse a greater killer than automobile accidents or gun-inflicted homicides and suicides. About one-third of the deaths are from opioids prescribed by physicians. For several years, Florida led the nation in opioid deaths. I-75 was known as the &#8220;Oxy Express,&#8221; because so many out-of-state residents headed to&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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