Back in the Senate, Rubio Tackles (Florida) Drugs

[TomSea]

Back in the Senate, Rubio Tackles Drugs
Joyce Frieden,

WASHINGTON -- Florida's successful efforts to shut down its pill mills led to the current wave of heroin addiction in that state, a county official told a Senate committee Thursday.

"I have ... evidence [that] the increase in the flow of heroin and increases in deaths related to heroin [are] in correlation to our cutting off the 'pill mills,' " said Teresa Jacobs, the mayor of Orange County, Fla., at a Senate hearing on the what some are terming a heroin epidemic. "The cartels have flooded us with very, very cheap drugs."

"In 2010, Florida was known as the pill mill capital of the country," Jacobs continued. "Florida practitioners were prescribing oxycodone at levels exceeding all other states combined. We responded by outlawing unauthorized pain clinics. Today the battlefront has moved; today we fight heroin, today we fight fentanyl. One can only surmise that the drug cartels perceived us as a ripe marketplace."

Read more at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/addictions/58172?pop=0&ba=1&xid=tmd-md&hr=trendMD

This article, written for medpagetoday is a bit scholarly, but the conclusions are interesting, whack-a-mole, you stop one thing, another thing pops up.

[Frank Cannon]

Back in the Senate, Rubio Tackles Drugs

Good. It's about time he stops smoking crack.

[Free Vulcan]

Modified the title to include the state @TomSea