OVERDOSE DETECTION MAPPING APPLICATION PROGRAM ODMAP provides near real-time suspected overdose surveillance data across jurisdictions to support public safety and public health efforts to mobilize an immediate response to a sudden …
Drug-Free Grants Provide Service to Barton and Surrounding Counties
By MELODY METZGER – Courtesy of The Lamar Democrat LAMAR- Project Director Jerod Morey opened the October 14 meeting of the Lamar Drug Free/ROCK Coalition/ORBIT at 5:30 p.m., in the AOK …
Before We Open Safe Injection Sites, Let’s Open Effective Treatment Sites
Opinion by Percy Menzies, M. Pharm, Assisted Recovery Centers of America (ARCA) and Fred Rottnek, MD, MAHCM, Director of Community Medicine and Addiction Medicine, Saint Louis University An editorial in the …
Trafficking Charge Filed on Lamar Man in Meth Seizure
LAMAR, Mo. — A Lamar man is being held without bond after postal inspectors, the Ozark Drug Enforcement Team and police served a search warrant on his home Thursday and …
ODET Arrested Three on Drug Charges
The Ozarks Drug Enforcement Team (ODET) served search warrants Wednesday on residences in Lamar and Carthage, seizing a total of 174 grams of methamphetamine and arresting three suspects on drug …
ODET Serves Two Drug Arrest Warrants in Lamar
LAMAR, Mo. — The Ozarks Drug Enforcement Team seized small amounts of methamphetamine and marijuana as well as a shotgun while arresting three people on warrants Monday at an address …
The Power of Drug Treatment Courts
A local judge was recently given the honor of submitting a written testimony to the US Senate on behalf of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP). NADCP was …
Substance Use Initiative receives grant from the AmerisourceBergen Foundation to launch prescription drug safety course for local high schools
Branson, MO – June 10, 2019 – The Stone and Taney Counties Substance Use Initiative announced today that it received a $100,000 grant from the AmerisourceBergen Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable …
Substance Use Initiative receives drug deactivation kits
CoxHealth and the CoxHealth Foundation announced today that the Stone and Taney Counties Substance Use Initiative received a donation of 5,000 drug deactivation pouches that will help bolster local efforts …
Meth continues to be No. 1 drug problem in Greene County; fentanyl rising quickly
Jackie Rehwald, Springfield News-Leader Published 4:41 p.m. CT May 2, 2019 Much attention has been on the opioid crisis in recent years, but according to local law enforcement, meth continues to claim …