Drug use in Florida
How Florida Employers Can Save Money by Ensuring They Qualify for the Drug-Free Workplace Credit
In 1990, Florida adopted the Federal Drug-Free Workplace Program, incentivizing employers in the state to combat workplace drug use in an effort to improve worker safety.
Miami Hit Hard By Heroin
These days Miami, Florida is filled with far more than the sound of the beach, music coming from Little Havana and the sound of car horns honking at the never ending traffic. In fact, it's filled with the sound of tourniquets being snapped around the arms of addicts while they fill their needles with heroin.
Rising Heroin Abuse in Tampa
At present, the entire nation is being swept by a heroin epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of heroin-related deaths has quadrupled in the last decade. Having said that, it will probably come as no surprise that yet another city in the nation is battle a heroin epidemic. Today we head back to sunny Florida to take a trip down the slippery heroin laced slope that many residents of Tampa are trying to navigate.
Delray Beach PD to Use Naloxone
Naloxone is a nasal mist that has been proven very effective during the current battle being waged across the country as more and more drug users turn to heroin for a cheap, easy to acquire way to get high. The implementation of this new overdose protocol can't come at a better time with 51 overdoses documented already this year and 3-4 calls currently coming in a day in Delray Beach.
Flakka Hits Hard in West Palm Beach
The dangerous synthetic drug, flakka, is taking hold of it residents in West Palm Beach, Florida and leaving law enforcement trying to find new ways to subdue users while in zombie mode.
Citing Drug Testing Fraud, Cigna Pulls Out of FL
Open enrollment begins on November 1 through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace, but Cigna pulled out at the last minute due to drug testing fraud.