Category: Drugs
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Miami pharma exec, a big Republican donor, agrees to pay up to $50 million to settle Medicaid civil fraud charges
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org A Miami businessman who once justified his decision to quadruple the price of a liquid antibiotic his company sold – to more than $2,300 a bottle – by asserting a “moral requirement to sell the product at the highest price” has agreed to pay up to $50 million to settle federal…
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Think you’re isolated during the pandemic? Just ask an addict
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org As healthy Americans struggle with social isolation in a pandemic, the Rev. Nathaniel Wilcox reminds them that for drug addicts, isolation is a way of life.
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Giuliani’s consulting firm helped halt Purdue opioid investigation in Florida
By Fred Schulte Kaiser Health News Six months after hiring former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani’s consulting firm, Purdue Pharma settled a Florida state investigation that had threatened to expose early illegal marketing of its blockbuster drug OxyContin, company and state records show.
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As heroin, fentanyl deaths mount, Miami-Dade leaders “research the topic”
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org Three months after presenting a plan to Miami-Dade commissioners to tackle an alarming rise in overdose deaths, drug-addiction experts say the county has not moved quickly enough to curb the local opiate epidemic.
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Too many heroin addicts, too few treatment beds; The runaround in Miami-Dade
By Francisco Alvarado BrowardBulldog.org As a heroin epidemic builds in South Florida, one drug interventionist is finding it difficult to get Miami-Dade County’s assistance to open a long-term treatment facility.
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Amid rising deaths, a warning that heroin epidemic has begun in South Florida
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org A new report sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse has determined that a heroin epidemic is underway in South Florida. “The key issue identified in 2013 is the outbreak of a heroin epidemic in South Florida and particularly in Miami-Dade County,” the report says.