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The youngest victims of Florida’s pill problem are in the spotlight at the state capitol. This afternoon the US Drug Czar joined Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to discuss how to stop the rising number of babies being born addicted to prescription pain killers. In 2010, nearly 14-hundred babies were born with drug addictions in Florida, up 40 percent from the previous year. General Bondi says that’s has to change.

“We are going to do everything in our power to stop this epidemic and it’s not an epidemic in Florida, it’s throughout our country,” said Bondi.

Today was the first meeting of the Florida Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns Task Force. The force was empanelled earlier this year after Bondi discovered a high number of babies in Tampa Bay were addicted to prescription drugs.