Report: Florida lawmakers, including Marco Rubio, ignited America's heroin crisis

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Report: Florida lawmakers, including Marco Rubio, ignited America’s heroin crisis
Tampa Bay Times, 6/29/2018, via Palm Beach Post

The Palm Beach Post is out with a devastating series of stories about Florida's role in America's heroin crisis, citing little-seen data and interviews with officials from around the country.

And few people look worse in it than Florida legislators – including Marco Rubio – for waiting a decade to crack down on dirty doctors and pill mills.

Post investigative reporter Pat Beall writes that their failure to act fed the nation's appetite for pills, making the nation's heroin crisis that much worse when Florida finally cracked down, in 2011.

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1. Marco Rubio killed a critical prescription drug monitoring program over "politics."

Florida had the chance to implement a program that would track overprescribing by doctors – considered a "silver bullet" against pill mills – but one person blocked it in 2002, early in the opioid crisis, according to the Post:

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1. Awful

I'm going to print this story for my wife's friend who thinks Marco Rubio is such a nice young man.

[malaise]

2. I watched an episode of American Greed on this

They should fill their private prisons with themselves