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Tagged: prescription drugs

Science, Health and Technology
8:20 am
Tue April 30, 2013

Concerns over drinking water motivate drug take-back participation

Credit Jenn Durfey / flickr

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department collected almost 650 pounds of prescription drugs from drop-off locations around Boone County in a drug pick-up event this past weekend … and the sheriff’s department reports there is an increase in people dropping off prescriptions for environmental reasons.

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Politics
6:13 pm
Thu March 7, 2013

Competing drug monitoring programs designed either to pass General Assembly or fail ballot vote

Credit Jacob Fenston / KBIA
Sen. Rob Schaaf

Two bills that would create a prescription drug monitoring program in Missouri received a hearing today before a State Senate committee.

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Politics
10:37 am
Fri May 4, 2012

Prescription drug database doomed in Senate

Credit Jacob Fenston / KBIA
Republican Senator Rob Schaaf, of St. Joseph.

 A Missouri senator has successfully killed a bill that would have authorized a government database to track people's prescription drug purchases.

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