Bills to Limit Opioid Prescribing Advance as Concerns Linger

Legislation that would impose a three-day opioid prescribing limit for treatment of acute pain is moving forward in the Florida Legislature, despite concerns that it doesn’t give doctors enough flexibility to treat patients with a traumatic injury or who are undergoing a major surgery. But one of the bills’ sponsors, Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers, said she plans to work on addressing physicians’ concerns, even as her Senate Bill 8 heads to the Senate floor for a vote. “I’m going to continue to work with the physician community and all those interested s...