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Missouri Agency Seeks More Investigators for Opioid ProgramA budget proposal to fund two additional investigators for a statewide prescription drug monitoring program is in limbo as some Missouri state senators…
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The Missouri House is advancing a bill aimed at fighting the opioid crisis with drug take-back programs and limits on prescriptions.The proposal would…
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HyVee Announces It Will Sell Naloxone in Missouri Without a PerscriptionMissouri Attorney General to Investigate Inmate Death Further on FridayThe Kansas…
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In 2016 nearly 600 Missouri babies were born addicted to drugs. The condition, know as neonatal abstinence syndrome, has spiked in the state increasing by…
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A doctor handed Melissa Morris her first opioid prescription when she was 20 years-old. She had a cesarean section to deliver her daughter, and to relieve…
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Deana Kilpatrick smoked crack for the first time when she was 13 years old. “From there,” she says, “I really just spiraled down hill.” For the next 30...
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There's been a national spike in the number of deaths from opioid drug overdoses over the past 15 years and some of the biggest increases have come in the…
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Missouri's U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is planning a hearing this week on the growing abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers. The hearing is…
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Several years ago, Missouri State Representative Holly Rehder’s daughter struggled with prescription drug abuse. “She had cut her thumb at work and went...