Prescriptions and Treatment

Programs like Florida’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program help track and regulate the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substance medications. Increased regulations have had a direct, measurable impact on the opioid epidemic. However, there has been a shift to the use of illicit opioids in many patients who had previously misused prescribed substances.

Florida’s Department of Children and Families provides treatment for substance abuse through a community-based provider system. This system offers detoxification and treatment services as well as recovery support to adults and adolescents affected by substance misuse, abuse or dependence.


Opioid Prescriptions, Florida
Data Source: Florida Department of Health
Substance Abuse Program Enrollees, Florida
Data Source: Florida Department of Children and Families
       
Prescriptions and Treatment, Florida
IndicatorMeasureYearJanuary-March (Provisional)April-June (Provisional)July-September (Provisional)October-December (Provisional)Year-to-Date (Provisional)
Prescription and Patient Measures
Count2023
2,773,369
2,773,369
Count2023
1,319,771
1,319,771
Count2023
61,843
61,843
Per patient20232.1
2.1
Per prescriber202344.8
44.8
Health Services
Count2022
362
Count2021
42,298
Count2021
7,458

Data Note(s)


  • The state totals for the number of prescriptions dispensed may exceed the sum of the county totals due to some records having an unknown county.