Senate Bill 4834 would remove testosterone from the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program, a database created to track ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Within the coming weeks, Missouri health care providers will be able to track a patient’s prescriptions with the goal of preventing overdoses and opioid abuse. Missouri is the ...

A bill to strengthen privacy protections for transgender and abortion patients passed a Senate committee Wednesday in a 9-4 ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- House members on Monday voted to make Missouri the last state to adopt a prescription drug monitoring program aimed at cutting back at opioid misuse and doctor shopping.

Missouri's prescription drug monitoring database went online last week. Health workers will now need to enter patient information into a statewide database when they dispense opioids and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 9—After a bruising legislative battle that took years, a statewide prescription drug monitoring program finally is ready to ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — State House members gave initial approval Tuesday to legislation that would make Missouri the final state to adopt a prescription-drug monitoring program. The legislation, ...

The monitoring program was created a decade ago in response to reports of widespread prescription drug abuse in Southwest Virginia. In a practice known as doctor-shopping, abusers go from one ...

Summary In 2009, the Oregon legislature created the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), which tracks prescriptions for certain drugs dispensed by Oregon pharmacies. The database tracks ...

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