The Show-Me State is experiencing the country’s fourth largest shortage of primary, mental, and dental health care professionals. Pat Simmons with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services spoke before a task force of state lawmakers, saying that treating...
Missouri’s economic cost associated with fighting substance use disorder is $8.5 billion. Marshfield Republican Representative John Black tells Anthony Morabith that the state’s Substance Abuse task force has been meeting for years to address a continuing...
A taskforce of lawmakers has been meeting monthly since the summer to better understand Missouri’s substance abuse crisis and find ways to address it. Doug Burgess, an addiction psychiatry professor at University Health in Kansas City, said step one towards treating...
The demand for substance misuse treatment is high, but the availability to treat these patients is a different story in Missouri. State Department of Social Services Director Rob Knodell told a legislative task force that there needs to be an increase in access to...
Missouri’s Behavioral Health division is calling Missouri’s substance use problem a public health crisis. Director Nora Bock said her division oversees mental health and substance use disorder services. It is working to reduce the number of alcohol or drug issues,...
