Study: Florida's Crackdown On 'Pill Mills' Is Working

State officials have been cracking down on Florida's "pill mills" over the past five year to prevent pain clinics from dispensing large quantities of prescription opioids to residents without following proper protocol–and their efforts seem to be paying off. Drug overdose deaths in the United States skyrocketed to 47,000 in 2014, mainly due to opioid painkillers and heroin, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). There were 18,893 deaths involving prescription opioids in the country in 2014, up 16% from 2013. There were 10,574 heroin-related deaths in 2014, up 28% from 2013. Deaths involving drugs like fentanyl and tramadol, synthetic opioids, increased by 79% from 2013-2014.
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