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Florida Prevention Subject: (CAN YOU ADD ME to THIS EMAIL LIST?) News Articles, Friday, November 12, 2010 Date: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:23:02 AM From: Brandon Colee To: Florida Prevention Subject: (CAN YOU ADD ME TO THIS EMAIL LIST?) News Articles, Friday, November 12, 2010 Date: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:23:02 AM Hello Florida Prevention, Wonderful news email! Will you please add me to your email listJ Thank you so much. Brandon Colee Manager PACT Prevention Coalition of St Johns County 1400 Old Dixie Highway St Augustine, FL 32084 office: 904-829-6261 ext 20 email: brandon@pactprevention org Mission ~ To make St Johns County a healthy substance-free community through the reduction and prevention of alcohol and drug abuse by our youth with Prevention, Advocacy, Choices and Teamwork From: Heidi Matheny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 10:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: FW: News Articles, Friday, November 12, 2010 FYI… Heidi L Matheny Coalition Coordinator PACT Prevention Coalition of St Johns County Office: (904) 829-6261 x 43 Cell: (904) 501-1275 Mission To make St. Johns County a healthy substance-free community through the reduction and prevention of alcohol and drug abuse by our youth with Prevention, Advocacy, Choices and Teamwork. From: Florida Prevention [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 10:44 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; Angie Ellison; Anne Frazier; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Brooke Baker; [email protected]; [email protected]; Carol Burkett; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Clarice Powell; Clay; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Gail Dixon; [email protected]; [email protected]; Goldstein, Ron; [email protected]; [email protected]; Jacob, Leonard Robert; [email protected]; Janet Reilly; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Kelly Johnson; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Lisa Jones; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Putnam; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Shipley, Claude; [email protected]; Sonya Bufe; [email protected]; Substance Free Citrus; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: FW: News Articles, Friday, November 12, 2010 FLORIDA http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2010/11/brce_d_grant_drug_control_pill_mills.phpB Bruce D. Grant, Florida Office of Drug Control explains delays in establishing prescription drug database 11 November 2010 http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/11/1920618/prescription-drug-bill-divides.html Prescription drug bill divides GOP donors 11 November 2010 NATIONAL http://sify.com/news/prosecutor-heroin-mill-found-near-times-square-news-others-klmiEkgahfg.html Heroin mill found near Times Square 12 November 2010 http://www.kansas.com/2010/11/12/1585121/ngerous-punch.html Kansas scrutinizes alcoholic energy drink 12 November 2010 http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=107006 Underage drinking is legal with parent present 12 November 2010 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ip7r1SIPog5ds_RyeomhhRTvdZxA? docId=CNG.56d1f55752a2aab0626aee89d327544b.9a1 Suicide rate soar among US Veterans 12 November 2010 http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/11/12/as-we-were-saying/ As we were saying; Veterans mental health 12 November 2010 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101111/ap_on_bi_ge/us_four_loko_ban;_ylt=AlrZ3akt0cLq6ClkkfXahYxzfNdF Washington State bans energy drinks 11 November 2010 INTERNATIONAL http://www.asylum.co.uk/2010/11/12/cat-caught-smuggling-drugs-into-russian-prison/ Cat caught smuggling drugs into Russian prison 12 November 2010 http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/emeraldextracts/seven-out-of-every-1000-in-ireland-use-heroin- 107430868.html Seven out of every 1,000 in Ireland use Heroin 12 November 2010 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12126283 Mexico Violence costs $350K daily in Natgas losses 12 November 2010 http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/mexico-drug-cartel-offers-to-disband-20101111-17pd9.html Mexico drug cartel offers to disband 11 November 2010 http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/12/mexico.senate.president/ Mexican lawmakers: jobs, education key to fighting Drug War 12 November 2010 FLORIDA http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2010/11/brce_d_grant_drug_control_pill_mills.phpBr Bruce D. Grant, Florida Office of Drug Control explains delays in establishing prescription drug database 11 November 2010 You've got to admire the spunk and sanity of Bruce D. Grant, director of the Florida Office of Drug Control, appointed by Charlie Crist. He didn't much like the insinuation, in our story published here yesterday, that the Florida government has been lazy about funding legislation that will help curb the practices of the narco-peddling pill-mills that have sprung up like ugly mushrooms across Fort Lauderdale in the last decade, and which are responsible for feeding the drug habits of addicts in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and elsewhere. What did he do? Did he stalk off, offended, and refuse to ever again speak to the lamestream media? No! He called us about it, and we had a nice chat. First of all, he wants us to know that there is more to Florida's prescription problem than the pill mills. Most abused prescription drugs come friends and family. The day-trippers who come to Florida from parts north to return home with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of pain killers, mostly Oxycontin, represent only the most dramatic manifestation of a problem that kills seven Floridians daily. (And countless more nationally.) "That's only the most egregious, blatant, and ugly example of all the drug diversion going on in Florida," says Grant. He asks: "Are you familiar with The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell?" We are. "Well then -- you know what the tipping point was for the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program? It was Oakland Park. It was the national exposure that embarrassed Florida. You got this national news, people coming from all up the Eastern Seaboard and Appalachia, coming down here for the prescriptions. And we had to get off our seats and pass a law." And of that embarrassment was born a solution. A partial one, to be sure, and not a solution free of the lugubriousness that plagues any bureaucratic action. But a solution all the same. It's called Florida Statute 893.055 (or "SB 462"), a piece of legislation drafted by Floridian Senator Mike Fasano, Republican of District 11. The legislation mandates the creation of a database, overseen by the Department of Health, that will allow pharmacies and doctors to check on the prescription-filling activities of individual patients -- to see if a patient is doctor-shopping, for example, by visiting three doctors, obtaining three prescriptions, and filling them at three different pharmacies. Moreover, it will provide an easy way for pharmacists to note if a single doctor is prescribing "medically improbable" quantities of narcotic painkillers. The database, when completed, will make life much more difficult for the white-coated pushers of Oakland Park's pill alleys, and put a "significant dent in prescription drug diversion and abuse," according to Grant. Problem is, as reported in our story, the legislation cannot be implemented with state funds. "But it is funded," says Grant. "When the law was passed in 2009, it said in there that it couldn't be funded by the state. It left us with the challenge of raising funds in two different ways." One of these was through a specially- created nonprofit that could raise funds for the creation of the database; this has yielded $500,000. The other fundraising mechanism was federal grants, which have yielded $800,000. As it stands, the program is sufficiently well-funded to bring the database online and keep it running through the end of June, 2011. "And another $250,000 will keep it up through June, 2012," says Grant. According to the letter of the law, the database should be up and humming by the first of December. It won't be, because Florida's government is a bureaucracy, and bureaucracies are slow, and that's just how it is. The particular problem in this instance is the dratted contractors. Shortly after Statute 893.055 was passed in early 2009, the Department of Health opened bidding on the contract to create the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. When bidding closed this summer, the losing bidder contested the winner, and the DoH opened bidding again. The same loser, Optimum Technology, lodged another complaint -- this one about the terms of the bidding themselves. Which means
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