State Task Force On Opioid Abuse Holds Last Meeting Of Year In Miami

The Statewide Task Force on the Opioid epidemic meeting for the last time this year in Miami. Attorney General Ashley Moody leading the task force of 21 experts organized by the Governor in August to look at ways to improve treatment, prevention and law enforcement response. Jacksonville Fire Chief Mark Roley developed a program called "Project Save Lives" where former addicts help addicts going through detox at local hospitals to ensure sure they follow through with therapy once they're clean. He says many addicts go through detox successfully, but don't follow through with therapy and then relapse. In Florida, an estimated 17 people die daily from opioid abuse. Florida Department of Health statistics show Florida's drug overdose deaths more than doubled from 2014 to 2016, with just over 2-thousand deaths in 2014, and almost 5-thousand in 2016.


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