Press and Media
Survey Shows Overall Drug Use Down Among Florida Youth
Lieutenant Governor's Office - Tallahassee - November 9, 2010
TALLAHASSEE – Florida Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp and Office of Drug Control Director Bruce Grant announced significant long-term reductions in drug use among Florida's middle and high school students while releasing the results of the 2010 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey. The Florida Office of Drug Control and partners in national and state agencies, law enforcement organizations, anti-drug coalitions, schools, and families are succeeding by addressing substance abuse prevention as a collective responsibility. Read more.
Florida Receives Major National Grant Award for Substance Abuse Prevention
Lieutenant Governor's Office - Tallahassee - November 9, 2010
TALLAHASSEE – Florida Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp announced today that Florida is the only state in the nation to receive a 2010 Prevention Partnership for Success Grant. The five year $11.5 million award will fund substance abuse prevention planning and evidence based practices at the grassroots level within six of Florida's most populous counties. Read more.
Suicide: Break the Silence to Save a Life
September 9, 2010
Prevention at Risk
May 21, 2010
Lieutenant Governor Kottkamp Applauds Passage of SB 1050
Lieutenant Governor’s Office - Tallahassee - April 28, 2010
TALLAHASSEE – Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp praised the Florida Legislature’s final passage of a system that blocks the sale of excessive amounts of precursor drugs used to make methamphetamine. SB 1050, sponsored by State Senator Cary Baker, and its House counterpart, HB 1071, sponsored by Representative Alan Hays, was the result of an extensive collaborative effort between the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Florida Retail Federation, the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators, the Consumer Health Products Association and the Florida Office of Drug Control. Read more.
March 4th Press Conference discussing Pill Mill legislation, with the Lt. Governor and the State Surgeon General
Florida Seaport Security: A Success Story
March 13, 2010
'Be The Wall' Campaign
http://bethewall.org/
Letter to the Editor: Dealing with Addition
February 12, 2010
Interview with Bruce Grant, Director of the Florida Office of Drug Control, on the topic of medical marijuana
World Federation Against Drugs - January 22, 2010
http://www.wfad.se/broadcast/38-broadcast/106-interview-with-bruce-grant-director-of-the-florida-office-of-drug-control
Medical Marijuana: Multiplying the Misery of Abuse
January 13, 2010