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Pain patients in FL having difficulty getting narcotics?

DEA data

No Difficulty Filling Prescriptions - Larry Goldbaum.

87 opioid inc 79 benzo increase

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The Oxycontin Express:  Broward County Florida

“We can not arrest our way out of this.”  “Drug dealers in white coats”.

To find your FL Senators:

 To find your FL Representatives:

US Senate Caucus on International Narcotic Control. 

Watch and follow up on what they actually do.

 http://www.c-span.org/video/?319372-1/prescription-drug-abuse-heroin-addiction

University of Miami’s Journalism Department

http://www.prescribingaddiction.com/

Rep Ronald Renuart, phys Ponte Vedra Beach amended HB 831 to remove the mandatory component from the PDMP

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/powerful-painkiller-abuse-experts-worried-180505140.html

Do you think there’s corruption

 http://www.propublica.org/article/the-champion-of-painkillers

2011 PHYSICIAN CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER FOR PRESCRIBING NARCOTIC PAIN PILLS TO A MAN WHO OVERDOSED. JEFFREY GEORGE PAIN CLINIC OWNER WAS CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.

PRESCTIPTION OD’s soar 61% in Florida oxycodone death rate: up 265%. There were 6.4 deaths per 100,00 in 2009 vs 1.7 in 2003 … cdc report

In 2010 1,374 babies were born addicted to drugs because their mothers were users a 42% increase from 2009 according to new Agency for Health Care Administration. Statewide 354 newborns were treated for drug-withdrawal syndrome in 2006, an increase of nearly 290% during the past 5 years.

14 PEOPLE A DAY DIE OF AN OVERDOSE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA FROM PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE. 7/day prescription drugs alone; 7/day prescription drug and alcohol

ALTHOUGH HOUSE BILL 2272 ADDRESSES DOCTOR SHOPPING, THE FACT IS ONE PHYSICIAN WILL PRESCRIBE # 120, 30 MG OXYCODONE, 90 SOMA, AND 30 XANAX FOR ONE MONTH.

1.1 MILLION PILLS ARE BEING PRESCRIBED IN ONE MONTH IN BROWARD COUNTY ALONE.