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• Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law this week that will give Attorney General Ashley Moody access to the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.
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• The DeSantis administration is working with the Agency for Health Care Administration to draft a plan that outlines how the program will be safe and cost-effective for patients.
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• Scotts says the Transparent Drug Pricing Act would require drug companies to list out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs. He says insurance companies would have to do the same releasing the cost of the same prescription drugs on their plans.
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• Governor Ron DeSantis was in the Villages yesterday to announce a new program that will import prescriptions drugs from Canada to Florida.
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• The opioid epidemic kills about 130 Americans a day. Central Florida leaders have established Project Opioid, a partnership that includes law enforcement, health care providers, insurance professionals and other authorities, to help combat the crisis.
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• Ocala’s first medical marijuana dispensary is open for business. It’s part of a growing industry in the state.
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• The rate of illicit drug overdose deaths increased by more than 1400 percent since the beginning of the decade.
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• The National Institute of Drug Abuse found 115 people die from opioid abuse every day in the United States.
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• Economist Juliette Cubanksi says the merger might be balanced out by other factors that are new to the Medicare market in 2019.
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• A bill aimed at curbing the opioid crisis passed in the Senate earlier this week. The Opioid Crisis Response Act would limit the availability of these drugs.
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