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Ground zero. Again.
Fentanyl kills more people in Palm Beach County than anywhere in Florida, report says
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Opioids are killing fewer people in Florida with every passing year, unless it’s from fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller 100 times more potent than morphine. Palm Beach County led the state in fentanyl deaths in 2018.Step in the right direction.
Florida Considers Changes In Drug Sentencing Laws
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Offenders caught with small amounts of most drugs could be sent to jail but not prison under a bill approved by a Florida Senate committee."The principal author of the commission’s report, Professor Bertha Madras of Harvard Medical School, describes the drug industry “pouring massive amounts of money” into perverting medical policy and subverting regulation in order to push opioids. “Using that money they literally bought off, and I don’t use that phrase lightly, they bought off the Joint Commission (which accredits hospitals and sets medical policies), they bought off the Federation of State Medical Boards, they bought off several American pain associations,” Madras told me earlier this month. The industry wrote policy to influence medical practice, manipulated doctor training, and distorted the conduct of the very institutions that were supposed to protect Americans from unscrupulous drug companies. Pharma also effectively bought off Congress, blocking the efforts of a few of its members who recognized the epidemic early on and tried to rein in the wide prescribing of opioids for relatively minor pain and in quantities no other country dispensed. In the decade to 2016, drug makers poured close to $2.5 billion into lobbying and funding members of Congress on opioids and other issues, and the industry’s registered lobbyists on Capitol Hill far outnumber elected representatives."
"Some lessons of what is in many ways a uniquely American tragedy have been learned. The epidemic is no longer in the shadows as the stigma around addiction has eroded. Doctors are more attuned to the risks of opioids and many are more cautious, with prescribing edging down over the past two years. Medical schools are finally requiring students to have proper training in pain management and addiction. State pharmacy boards have increasingly been warning their members about monitoring prescriptions. But the denials continue from those who created and did most to facilitate this tragedy. And its victims and their families are frustrated that the drug industry appears to be buying its way out of accountability and justice with financial settlements. "
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Big Pharma’s Response to the Opioid Epidemic: Pay But Deny
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Even as the pharmaceutical industry agrees to ever larger payouts to settle an onslaught of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic, it continues to obfuscate over its leading part in the conspiracy of greed that caused what the Trump commission, in its report on the crisis, called “this national nightm...5th Annual Lions of Recovery Reception and Dinner
5th Annual Lions of Recovery Reception and Dinner
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Dear Friends, On Saturday, November 16th, 2019, from 7 pm to 10 pm at The Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society, we are hosting the 5th Annual Lions of Recovery Reception and Dinner to benefit the Triangle Club, a not for profit, 501(c)3 in West Palm Beach. It will be an evening of fun, friendship,....