The national drug epidemic continues to flood emergency rooms across the nation with overdose patients who have taken a bad hit of newly developed forms of synthetic Heroin.

Miami’s notoriously dangerous Overtown neighborhood is the epicenter of the overdose problem in Miami-Dade County.

This part of town is literally littered with waste, prostitution, drugs, and all the other perils that come with the drug trade.

Since 2015, at least 31 people have fatally overdosed in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood with heroin or fentanyl — often both — in their blood. That makes it far and away the deadliest zip code for opioid deaths in Miami-Dade County. The city of Miami itself accounted for nearly a whopping 43 percent of all 236 county overdoses recorded since 2015.

And those numbers will rise dramatically — the Miami-Dade medical examiner’s office says there are 140 suspected overdoses from 2016 still awaiting final toxicology reports. Of those, 107 are believed to be overdoses involving carfentanil, an even deadlier cousin to fentanyl that is best known for its use as an elephant tranquilizer; 59 of those cases happened in the city of Miami.-Miami Herald

Palm Beach County is also considered to be ground zero when it comes to Heroine overdoses, as well as in the fight against drug addiction.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg has been cracking down hard on the “pill mills” that have hooked many people on opioids.

Addicts, who can no longer receive their “fix” from simply filling a doctor’s prescription, turn to the more dangerous synthetic Heroin as a cheaper substitute for the more expensive prescription drug.

While most of these “pill mills” have been eradicated throughout the state, some have managed to slip through the Bondi-Aronberg vice.

Aronberg recently sat down with the Shark Tank to discuss both the drug and drug “recovery home” problem, saying that the task force he created to specifically engage the problem as made 7 arrests since its inception earlier this year.

These people are in a very fragile state in their lives, and to transition back into society they can’t just go out and get a job and buy a home. That is what these sober homes are all about.

Unfortunately, there are people who own some of these sober homes who exploit the system, they have exploited the Affordable Care Act and Fair Housing Act-State Attorney Dave Aronberg

Bondi has also been outspoken about the recovery home problem, recently telling reporters that her office was addressing the problem on a statewide basis, and that it was unfortunate that a small number of these “bad actors” where casting a dark shadow over the entire industry.