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Floridarxsafety.com
Dedicated to improving the practices from before, during, and after prescriptions are brought into the home. Our goal is to inform communities across Florida on the dangers of prescription use and misuse, as well as alternative options to pain relief.
SAMHSA Treatment Locator
Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator, is a confidential and anonymous source of information for persons seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for substance use/addiction and/or mental health problems.
isaveFL.com Sponsored by the Florida Department of Children and Families and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association, shares a great number of resources to help individuals and families in need of resources and services to combat opioid addiction.
Safe Drug Storage
Safe Storage
Lock Your Meds® is a national multi-media campaign designed to reduce prescription drug abuse by making adults aware that they are the “unwitting suppliers” of prescription medications being used in unintended ways, especially by young people.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Put Your Medicines Up and Away and Out of Sight
Safe Drug Disposal
Deterra® Drug Deactivation System Pouches provide safe, convenient and permanent disposal of unused, expired or unwanted medications at home or in a clinical setting. Our plant-based Deterra Pouches use organic proprietary activated carbon to deactivate drugs and prevent future environmental contamination¹. Deterra Pouches also contain a smaller percentage of plastic when disposed of than competitor products². Reduce your carbon footprint with an environmentally sound approach to drug disposal.
Deterra is available for FREE to the community from Clay Action Coalition through a partnership with RALI FL, Lutheran Services Florida and the Community Coalition Alliance.
Non-Opioid Pain Management
Before administering anesthesia using a Schedule II controlled substance or prescribing or ordering a Schedule II controlled substance for pain treatment, a health care provider must talk to the patient about the risks of controlled substance abuse, and the advantages and disadvantages of nonopioid alternatives. During the discussion, the health care provider must give the patient or their representative, a printed Alternatives to Opioids pamphlet, created by the Florida Department of Health.
A health care provider is not required to discuss nonopioid alternatives or provide a printed copy of the pamphlet to a patient who is receiving a Schedule II controlled substance for pain treatment before critical care in a hospital or emergency department or when receiving hospice services (s. 400.6095).
The Florida law applies to non-emergency situations only. Health care providers can post Alternatives to Opioids on their websites. The pamphlet and poster may be downloaded and printed from office printers.
Downloadable Materials
Alternative to Opioids: Fact Sheet