Florida Criminal Defense Blog

It’s been almost two years since Florida lawmakers voted to create a prescription drug monitoring database. And yet it still hasn’t taken shape. A new article from the St. Petersburg Times examines all of the variables that have stood to delay the launch of the program and the issues that may be leading to its demise. [Read more...]

Six people are facing charges after law enforcement from federal and state agencies swooped in on south Florida pill mills this week. The owners and operators of the mills are accused of illegally dispensing more than 660,000 doses of oxycodone, according to this Reuters report. [Read more...]

Governor-elect Rick Scott made a controversial announcement this week that he will be dissolving the Office of Drug control at the first of the year. Having pledged to cut unnecessary spending, people are up in arms justifying the need for this office which played a role in getting the funding for the newest efforts at curbing the illegal prescription drug trade. [Read more...]

Regulations to control Florida’s pain clinics and “pill mills” are in limbo as legislators “inadvertently” stopped progress due to funding. According to the Miami Herald, a new law designed to stop excessive state spending has tied up the prescription drug regulations scheduled to take effect just a few days ago. [Read more...]

With arguably one of the worst prescription drug problems in the country, Florida has seen record numbers die from prescription drug overdoses. Despite this, according to a report from St. Petersburg Times, law enforcement struggles to cut off the prescription drug trade where it starts–with the physicians. [Read more...]

Florida is one of only a handful of states that does not have a prescription drug control program. Although this is scheduled to change in December, the booming pill mills stand to prescribe thousands if not millions of pills between now and then. [Read more...]