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01/30/2024
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Sober Living Homes are improving their stand in Rehab Treatment Industry!

Sober Living Homes are improving their stand in Rehab Treatment Industry!

What would you call a place where people can get together to support each other through the early parts of their sobriety (zero levels of Drugs or Alcohol in body)....Is it My Families House or a Sober Living Home or Transitional Housing or the 1970 term "Halfway Houses" ????? Most of these have become a mainstay operation for a Substance Use treatment over the last 5 years. While noble intentions (cost is lower than 30,60, 90, heck even 180days, readily available, easy to furnish the home,) dictated the decision-making proccess
Prepared by: Criminal Justice Committee
The bill takes a comprehensive approach to the problem of fraudulent patient brokering and deceptive marketing practices in the business of substance use addiction services, particularly related to the economic relationship between service providers and “recovery residences.”
The bill requires entities providing substance abuse marketing services to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services under the Florida Telemarketing Act.
The bill strengthens the Department of Children and Families’ (DCF) substance abuse treatment provider licensure program and improves the regulation of service providers. The DCF must draft rules on minimum licensure standards and require that certain providers be accredited. The bill also expands DCF’s authority to take action against a service provider for violations on a tier-based system that also includes the imposition of fines.
The bill creates new and amends existing criminal offenses (prohibited acts) related to patient brokering and marketing practices that create or increase fines and potential prison sentences. These offenses are added to the Criminal Punishment Code ranking chart for purposes of assigning sentencing points.
The bill provides assistance to law enforcement and prosecutors by:
  • Extending the jurisdiction of the Office of the Statewide Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute patient brokering offenses;
  • Adding patient brokering to the list of predicate offenses that may be prosecuted as RICO offenses which could result in higher penalties; and
  • Adopting federal law with regard to the timing of law enforcement giving notice to a patient regarding obtaining the patient’s records pursuant to a court order.
If approved by the Governor, these provisions take effect July 1, 2017.
Vote: Senate 38-0; House 115-0

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Mark Gladden brings both personal and professional experience to his role as co-founder of Present Moments Recovery. Now in long-term recovery himself after struggling with addiction for years, Mark understands firsthand the challenges men face in achieving and maintaining sobriety. It was this insight, combined with a desire to help others, that led Mark to establish Present Moments Recovery.

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