Libertarian candidate blasts county moratorium on pain clinics
Our Jennifer Sorentrue reports that Palm Beach County commissioners this morning approved a one-year moratorium on approving new pain-management clinics amid concerns that drugs are being dispensed...
View ArticleSenate signs off on pill mill crackdown
The Florida Senate unanimously approved a measure aimed at getting rid of the pill mill plague spreading from South Florida to the West Coast. Under the bill (SB 2272), doctors in good standing and...
View ArticlePain clinics to sue over pill mill bill if it becomes law
An association of the state’s pain clinics vowed to sue over the “pill mill” legislation not yet sent to Gov. Charlie Crist. Lawmakers passed the measure to rein in the pain clinics proliferating...
View ArticleScott: ‘I don’t believe we should be doing’ drug database
Gov. Rick Scott said he scrapped Florida’s much-anticipated computer system aimed at curbing the sale of prescription drugs by pill mills because he doesn’t believe it’s something the state should do....
View ArticleHouse big-box pill mill bill a no-go in the Senate
The House’s latest proposal that would give retailers like Walgreens and CVS exclusive rights to dispense highly addictive pain medications is a no-go in the Senate, Senate President Mike Haridopolos...
View ArticleScott, Bondi tout Florida progress on pill mills on FoxNews
Gov. Rick Scott, in Washington for the White House Correspondents Dinner, and Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared on FoxNews shortly after noon today to tell the nation what Florida’s doing to crack...
View ArticlePill mill bill on life support?
GOP legislative leaders are in a standoff on a pill mill crackdown with less than 36 hours left until the session is expected to end. Sen. Mike Fasano, the Senate’s pill mill bill sponsor, said he...
View ArticleSenate passes pill mill crackdown, sends to House
The Senate unanimously approved a compromise aimed at stripping Florida of its dubious distinction as the “pill mill capital” of the nation as Attorney General Pam Bondi looked on from the dais and two...
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