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Florida’s Foster Children Are Still Being Medicated Without Proper Oversight

September 22, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Just a fifth of the 2,434 children in state foster care had proper consent-form and other requirements to be subjected to psychotropic drugs, according to UF research.

Doctors and Pharmacists Complain: Patients Aren’t Getting Their Pain Meds Fast Enough

September 21, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Pharmacists complain that distributors are limiting their supply of powerful narcotics, forcing the pharmacists to ration their limited stock to their regular patients.

Judge Throws Out Florida’s Medical Marijuana Rules, Calling Them Vague and “Unbridled”

November 15, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Administrative Law Judge W. David Watkins sided with Miami-based Costa Farms and others that objected to the Department of Health’s use of a lottery to pick five licensees that will grow, process and distribute strains of non-euphoric marijuana authorized by the Legislature and approved by Gov. Rick Scott earlier this year.

Police Chiefs and Civil Liberties Lawyers Tangle Over Florida’s Drug-Monitoring Database

August 28, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Florida Department of Health officials say they want to tighten security on the state’s prescription-drug monitoring program, after the names and detailed prescription-drug histories of more than 3,000 people were released to defense attorneys after a drug sting in May.

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