Missouri’s estimated economic cost associated with fighting substance use disorder is $8.5 billion. That’s according to Nora Bock, director of the Division of Behavioral Health. She spoke before a taskforce of lawmakers saddled with trying to address the continuing...
The Missouri Legislature’s Task Force on Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment is holding monthly meetings to brainstorm ways to fight drug abuse. It is continuing its work from last year to help Missourians battling addiction. Dr. Angeline Stanislaus, with the...
A task force made up of Missouri lawmakers is back to work to come up with ways to battle drug abuse. It plans to hold monthly meetings to continue its work from last year. Missouri’s substance use disorder problem is bigger than any one state department. That’s...
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...
