Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

Seven days’ worth of pain medicines are inadequate for patients who’ve had their chests ripped open for heart surgery or had their hips or knees...

Several proposals to combat the opioid epidemic are circulating through the Florida House and Senate.

The governor and state lawmakers are proposing new prescription limits to fight opioid abuse. But they also want to require physicians use a long...

The Florida Legislature’s crackdown on so-called pill mills saved more than 1,000 lives over three years.That’s according to a study published in the…

Five years ago, Florida was recognized as the unofficial pill mill capitol of the country. Ninety-three of the top 100 oxycodone-dispensing doctors in the…

Since Florida implemented its prescription drug monitoring program four years ago, prescription overdose deaths have dropped by 25 percent. That’s...

A new study from Johns Hopkins University shows Florida’s pill mill crackdown worked in its first year.After becoming the epicenter for prescription…

Ten years ago, Chris Young was crushed by a car he was working under. “He was crushed accordion style,” says his wife Lesley. The accident left Young,...

A House budget bill would allow tax dollars to be used next year to administer the state's prescription-drug database, after years of debate about the...

A database that tracks oxycodone and other controlled substances in Florida is being credited with a 25 percent drop in overdose deaths. In 2011, the...