opioid crisis

For the last year, it’s been legal in Missouri to use a tool that tests other drugs for the presence of fentanyl, a very strong and deadly opioid. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith takes a look at where people can find fentanyl test strips and the role they play in combating the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic.

Drug overdoses have killed more than 23,000 Missourians in the last two decades. Many of those were involved fentanyl and other potent opioids.

A three-year grant awarded to the University of Missouri by the USDA will help train health and social workers on adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs.

Synthetic opioids such as Fentanyl are causing more deaths than natural opioids.

The opioid crisis has driven states to look for ways of providing alternative treatments for chronic pain, to reduce people’s exposure to the potentially…