BAY COUNTY, Fla. – Ryan Torrens is a democratic candidate from Tampa, where he owns a small law firm.
He says his experiences in law and as a regular citizen are what drives his campaign.
Some of his top priorities are crime in Florida and drug addiction, which he said is something that hits close to home.
“I call it the crisis of addiction instead of the opioid crisis because it includes cocaine, it includes other drugs as well as opioids,” he said. “A record number of Floridians are dying because of this crisis,
I myself am someone who is in recovery and I’ve come out publicly with that so that gives me a unique perspective.”
Torrens campaign website can be found here.
The state will vote for a new attorney general will be November 6.
Those of us who live in FL, know the impact that the current AG – Pam Bondi – had on the chronic pain community in Florida over the last 7 yrs of her being in office. She help create the “pharmacy crawl”, where pts would have to go to up to a couple of dozen pharmacies to get a single controlled prescription filled. Florida became the home of infamous phrase used by way to many pharmacists “I’m not comfortable” as the only justification they had for refusing to fill a pt’s prescription(s)… even for those pts in late stage cancer.
Torrens’ perspective on addiction could just become a “new nightmare” for chronic pain and other pts dealing with subjective diseases and have a legit medical need for controlled substances.
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It is a common theme now in gov to hire recover ing addicts for The Reform. I would love to be a fly on the wall at an anonymous NA meeting, however, as they are humans and chronic illness requireing medication wouldn’t get them high, I doubt seriously that the majority of them in severe and unrelenting pain would opt out for medical intervention. And for the many with co occurring afflictions, I guarantee that antianxiety medications are a godsend, ADHD treatment as well.