opioid crisis

Escambia County Emergency Medical Services has announced a significant achievement for its Coordinated Opioid Recovery Effort (CORE) program, which has assisted its 200th patient.

After losing at an appeals court, Attorney General Ashley Moody has gone to the Florida Supreme Court in a potentially high-stakes fight about whether hospital districts and school boards should be able to pursue opioid-epidemic lawsuits after she reached settlements with the pharmaceutical industry.

A state appeals court Wednesday ruled that Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody could not prevent opioid-epidemic lawsuits filed by hospital districts and school boards after she reached settlements with the pharmaceutical industry.

New data for 2023 shows Escambia County's opioid overdose crisis is worsening.

Escambia County's Coordinated Opioid Recovery (CORE) program is off to a good, with 13 graduates to date.

Escambia County is joining Florida's new Coordinated Opioid Recovery (CORE) network to address the state and local opioid crisis.

Access to medication-assisted treatment is growing in Northwest Florida. In 2020, the Panhandle Comprehensive Treatment Center opened in Pace, one the first and few facilities to offer that treatment in that area. Within its first year, the facility was treating over a hundred patients.

Florida is one of 14 states to receive funds from opioid settlement

Florida will receive $40 million as part of a $573 million settlement between McKinsey & Company and dozens of states because of the global consulting…