• For years, people who used drugs were treated like criminals, often given long sentences. Now there’s growing acceptance that addiction is a treatable disease, but shame and discrimination linger.
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• The Biden administration is urging a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit that could stand in the way of states like Florida allowing prescription drugs to be imported from Canada.
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• The Orlando City Council is applying for a Florida Department of Health grant that would provide Orlando Police officers with hundreds of additional doses of NARCAN.
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• Nanoscience Technology Center James Hickman says microscopic liver and heart cells are attached to glass chips and then flooded with opioids to simulate the overdose and determine how different organs are affected.
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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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