In the Orlando area, emergency departments have already been seeing an increase in the number of patients with withdrawal symptoms.
The new law, which went into effect July 1, imposes new standards for pain clinics and requires reporting prescriptions to a state databank to prevent the same patient from getting another prescription somewhere else.
Read the Palm Beach Post report on Florida’s pill mill legislation.
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Florida Pain Physician Linked to 34 Patient Deaths in 2011
Florida Delays Prescription Pad Requirement in Pill Mill Law
Florida Pain Clinics Stop Dispensing Pills
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