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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield 20240604 20:52:00

Illegal in the state of florida, but they were distributing prescription opioid pills to thousands of people. so how is that not illegal when they weren t, you know, pharmacists or doctors, right? well, unfortunately, at the time of the pill mill epidemic in south florida, there was no prescription monitoring program in the state of florida. had there been this type of database in place at the time, it would have tracked what patients were receiving what controlled substances from which doctor and it also would have tracked the pharmacies that were dispensing that medication. in this instance, obviously, oxycodone. because such a monitoring program did not exist at the time, they were quite literally allowed to flourish in florida. what was illegal, thank goodness, in the state of florida at the time is a state ....

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Republicans advance bill that would boost penalties for fentanyl suppliers

Republicans in the state Senate are working to greatly boost the penalties for people who supply the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, advancing a bill on Thursday that would subject someone who makes, transports or sells the drug to life in prison or the death penalty if someone dies after taking the drug. ....

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