BRANSON – 52 healthcare practitioners gathered in Branson Friday for the opioid stewardship training. This training seminar is meant to help reduce prescribing high risk meds, such as controlled substances …
I Lost My Brother To Opioid Addiction. Here’s How Employers Can Address The Crisis
Sunday, October 18, 2015, started out like any other day. Nothing unusual about the first hours of the morning. No sign that I’d soon get a phone call that would …
How Opioids Started Killing Americans
It’s been conventional wisdom for some time now that America’s opioid epidemic began at the pharmacy. Now there are numbers that put any doubt to rest. More than half of …
The Evolution of the Epidemic: Missouri’s Opioid Crisis
The opioid epidemic is one of Missouri’s most pressing health issues. To put it in perspective, roughly 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2016, with 49,900 of those deaths …
Stories of addiction highlight Springfield opioid summit.
Brent Swanson saw firsthand how an addiction to prescription painkillers can destroy a family. His daughter was prescribed opioids at age 16 after having her wisdom teeth pulled. Her problems …
Missouri receives millions of federal dollars to help opioid addicts
A huge grant has been allocated for Missouri. The question now is where that money goes. “It took a while,” said Eric Moffitt of the Springfield Recovery Community Center. “My …
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