Drugs

She’s running this November to keep the Senate seat that opened when President Donald Trump named Marco Rubio as secretary of state.

A new AI-powered tech is showing law enforcement and public health leaders dangerous drugs entering their communities and predicting the drug wave.

Gainesville residents dropped off their unused or expired prescription drugs at HCA Florida Gainesville Emergency on Saturday as part of efforts to safely dispose of medications.

The federal dollars will allow Florida Atlantic to focus on youth transitioning out of foster care, living in rural poverty or experiencing housing instability.

The decline in Florida mirrors what happened nationwide. The CDC reported 30,000 fewer U.S. overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline recorded.

The cocaine and marijuana seized had a street value of nearly half a billion dollars. It was the largest single offloading of drugs in Coast Guard history.

Prosecutors accused a South Florida doctor and pharmacists of selling millions of pills illegally for years. WLRN tried to figure out why the state's pill mill laws did not flag issues sooner.

About 67% of 12th-graders said they hadn’t used alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes or e-cigarettes in the previous 30 days. That’s the largest percentage seen in an annual national survey.

The guidelines took years to finalize, but while regulators were drafting them, a new trend emerged: online pharmaceutical influencers with little government oversight.

The pharmaceutical industry has invented a new art form: finding ways to make their wares seem like joyous must-have treatments, while often minimizing lackluster efficacy and risks.

The researchers found that between 2020 and 2022, the percentage of overdose deaths with evidence of smoking rose 74%. Meanwhile, the percentage of deaths with evidence of injection fell 29%.

As national distributors and pharmacies restricted the flow of painkillers in response to the opioid crisis, Publix did the opposite, according to a Tampa Bay Times/KFF Health News data analysis.