by Anthony Morabith | Oct 23, 2023 | Health / Medicine, News
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...
by Anthony Morabith | Oct 20, 2023 | Health / Medicine, Legislature, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri lawmakers and health professionals are wrestling with Missouri’s substance abuse problem. Doug Burgess, an addiction psychiatry professor at UMKC, tells a legislative task force that one of the big challenges health professionals are dealing with is substance...
by Anthony Morabith | Jun 26, 2023 | Health / Medicine, News
Lawmakers are getting started this summer addressing Missouri’s substance abuse problem. A task force focusing on that meets once a month at the state capitol. Last week, lawmakers heard testimony from medical professionals in the field. Joshua Moore, is MO...
by [email protected] | Jun 21, 2023 | News, Show Me Today
Even though the regular legislative session is over and done with does not mean that the people’s work is still not being done in Jefferson City. Anthony Morabith chats with Democratic Rep. LaDonna Appelbaum of St. Louis County for Show Me Today. The Substance Abuse...
by admin | Jun 13, 2021 | Agriculture, Health / Medicine, Legislature, News
A freshman state lawmaker who represents a district in far southern Missouri passed landmark prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) legislation in his first year in Jefferson City. State Rep. Travis Smith (R-Twin Bridges) represents Douglas, Ozark and Taney...