{"id":38137,"date":"2023-11-01T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=38137"},"modified":"2023-11-01T12:11:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:11:34","slug":"lakeland-recovery-center-seeing-more-patients-addicted-to-fentanyl-without-knowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/01\/lakeland-recovery-center-seeing-more-patients-addicted-to-fentanyl-without-knowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Recovery Center seeing more patients addicted to fentanyl without knowing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A multi-agency, undercover drug trafficking investigation ended with Polk County deputies arresting three men and seizing 10 kilograms of fentanyl, the largest in the county\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThat 10 kilos can overdose and kill five million people,\u201d said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state of Florida has seen an exponential increase in overdoses associated with fentanyl. According to Florida\u2019s Medical Examiners annual report, there were 8,411 opioid-related deaths in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFentanyl is not new in the community, but it\u2019s the only thing now, and all the patients tell me it gives them a bigger boost,\u201d said Dr. James Anderson, Medical Director of Lakeland Centre for Addiction Clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some drug overdoses have occurred following the use of illicit drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, and counterfeit prescriptions that were laced with fentanyl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Anderson has been treating people addicted to opioids for more than three decades. He said many of his patients don\u2019t even know that they have fentanyl in their system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYears ago, we added that to our list of drugs that we test for. Bingo, the first day we added it, we had positive tests for fentanyl,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials said fentanyl addiction is destroying communities locally and across the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a real problem. It is a medical issue as well as a societal issue, but once they have it, they\u2019re stuck and need some kind of treatment,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A multi-agency, undercover drug trafficking investigation ended with Polk County deputies arresting three men and seizing 10 kilograms of fentanyl, the largest in the county\u2019s history. \u201cThat 10 kilos can… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[6536],"class_list":["post-38137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-recovery-center-seeing-more-patients-addicted-to-fentanyl-without-knowing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}