• MBI Director Ron Stucker said Operation Icarus started last April when corrections officials came to MBI to investigate inmate Steven Albers, now 28 years old, who was suspected of smuggling an opioid into the jail.
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• The Lake County Sheriff’s Office says the first responders fell ill after inhaling the substance.
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• Governor Ron DeSantis was joined by Attorney General Ashley Moody and Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey for the announcement of the drug trafficking bust in Brevard County today.
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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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• Fentanyl could be deadly for first responders-but what if they had a laser shooting gun that could detect these substances beforehand. That’s exactly what UCF’s Dr. Subith Vasu and his team plan on finding out with their design.
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• People can anonymously and instantly get help for a family member with addiction. It’s only a text away.
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• A new study published in Pediatrics journal says the number of children hospitalized for opioid overdose doubled nationwide. Deaths from these overdoses decreased.
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