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Senate Cuts Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in Budget Proposal

By Tyler Wornell & Columbia Missourian • Apr 16, 2018

 If Missouri lawmakers want a statewide drug monitoring program, they’ll need to fight for it in a legislative conference committee.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday cut funding for a prescription drug monitoring program that Gov. Eric Greitens created in an executive order in summer 2017.

Missouri Finally Has Prescription Drug Monitoring, So Why Can’t Prescribers Use It?

By • Aug 1, 2017

For five years now, the Missouri legislature has considered legislation to create a prescription drug monitoring database that would allow pharmacists and physicians to look at their patient's prescription history for signs of misuse of narcotics. And for five years, Missouri pharmacists like Erica Hopkins have watched those efforts fail with disappointment.


Addressing Prescription Drug Abuse is Personal For Representative Holly Rehder

By • Jan 21, 2016
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"If you ask a 15-year-old who's never been addicted to drugs, 'would you take heroin?' [they'd say,] 'Oh my gosh no,'" says Missouri State Representative Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston). 

"But after two years of addiction, and they can't afford to buy the pills anymore, and someone offers them heroin for ten bucks - it's not the bogeyman anymore."