{"id":269793,"date":"2026-05-13T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:47:09","slug":"florida-sees-46-drop-in-fentanyl-related-deaths-desantis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269793\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sees 46% drop in fentanyl-related deaths, DeSantis says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a major decline in drug-related deaths across the state.During a news conference on Wednesday, DeSantis said a new report shows statewide deaths related to drug overdoses dropped by 19%.DeSantis said opioid-related deaths dropped by 42%, while fentanyl-related deaths dropped by 46%.&#8221;That is a huge success story,&#8221; DeSantis said.Mark Glass, FDLE commissioner, also highlighted the increase in penalties in Florida for drug dealers and wider access to Narcan.&gt;&gt; Watch the full news conference below\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tTITUSVILLE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a major decline in drug-related deaths across the state.<\/p>\n<p>During a news conference on Wednesday, DeSantis said a new report shows statewide deaths related to drug overdoses dropped by 19%.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said opioid-related deaths dropped by 42%, while fentanyl-related deaths dropped by 46%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is a huge success story,&#8221; DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Glass, FDLE commissioner, also highlighted the increase in penalties in Florida for drug dealers and wider access to Narcan.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; Watch the full news conference below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a major decline in drug-related deaths across the state.During a news conference on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-269793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}