Florida | NonOpioidChoices

State Facts

4,017

Deaths, or 68.7% of all overdose deaths in the year ending Sept 2024 involved opioids.¹

4.6 Million

or 3.7% of all Medicare Part D claims were for opioids in 2023 – an average of 49 per prescriber.²

37.4

Opioid Prescriptions were written for every 100 persons in Florida in 2023.³

$267 Billion

the estimated total societal cost of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Florida in 2024.⁴

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Opioid Settlement Funds

$3,462,212,328.62

State Spending Recommendation

The Statewide Council on Opioid Abatement has recommended increasing access to recovery housing, increasing access to peer support and recovery community organizations, and expanding data-sharing agreements to support real-time opioid-related surveillance and evaluation, among others.

Member & Endorser Footprint

Voices is backed by a broad coalition of organizations across the state united by a shared goal: ensuring patients have access to safe, effective,  and individualized pain management throughout the continuum of care.

Co-Sponsors (119th)

Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL-2)

Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL-12)

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL-21)

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL-17)

Rep. Aaron Bean (R-FL-04)

Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL-05)

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL-03)

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20)

2025 Introduced Relevant Legislation

H.B.1093/S.B.1154

Requires Medicaid and Medicaid managed care plans to cover non-opioid pain medications in a way that doesn’t discourage their use compared to opioids. Defines what counts as a “non-opioid pain drug” and outlines practices that are not allowed when covering these medications.

Introduced

02/25/2025

Plan Impact

Medicaid

Learn More

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool. https://cms-oeda.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=5390718d875d4c049b1ac5976a9ff083

3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps. https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/data-research/facts-stats/opioid-dispensing-rate-maps.html

4. Avalere Health (2025). The cost of addiction: Opioid use disorder in the United States. https://advisory.avalerehealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Avalere-Health-White-Paper_The-cost-of-opioid-addiction_OUD-in-the-United-States.pdf