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 Kansas City woman who has turned her life around is trying to help others suffering from addiction do the same. Bobbi-Jo Reed, a Missouri resident who has been sober for 28 years, describes her journey, including when she was at her ‘lowest of the low.’...
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...
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...
