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A mental health summit at the Orlando VA bring federal and nonprofit mental health agencies together. They discussed ways to reach more veterans in need.
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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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There were more than 300 new cases of Hepatitis C last year in Florida in 2016. More than a third of these were young people.
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Babies who are exposed to drugs in the womb are at increased risk of developing symptoms of withdrawal after they’re born. A new bill wants to improve their care.
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Florida’s opioid epidemic triggered a public health emergency. In Volusia and Flagler Counties the number of newborn babies detoxing from opioids has doubled in the last five years and at any one time there are one to three cases where newborns are suffering symptoms associated with opioid withdrawal.