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It's Election Day in Kansas, and the most contentious races may actually be for your local school board — which have become battlegrounds for issues like face masks and "critical race theory." Also, experts say Missouri's lack of mental health coverage may be causing physicians to over-prescribe anti-anxiety meds.
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Missouri had the 4th highest rate in the country of residents taking benzodiazepines, and that was before the pandemic amped up anxiety. Experts say that long term use of these medications can cause lasting problems for patients.
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Law professors who reviewed the redacted content for the Kansas News Service struggled to understand why the state would consider it legal to black out the information.
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Kansas taxpayers and state employees could be paying too much for prescription drugs, but a state-commissioned report doesn't actually say if customers got a bargain or got gouged. Kansas even tried to black out large swaths of the audit, but it botched many of the redactions.
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Some in public health now argue that when providers use such monitoring programs to cut off prescription opiate misuse, people who have an addiction instead turn to heroin and fentanyl.
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State Sen. Holly Rehder, R-Sikeston, has been trying to pass a prescription drug monitoring program since she was first elected to the legislature nine years ago.
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Courtney argues he should be released early because he has numerous health problems that put him at risk of contracting COVID-19 and because he has made post-sentencing efforts to rehabilitate himself.
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The decision to keep Courtney in prison would mark a reversal by the Bureau of Prisons to release Courtney to a halfway house today and then to home confinement in Trimble, Missouri.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri received news of Robert Courtney’s early release from KCUR’s story on Monday.
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Robert Courtney was serving a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to diluting medications for as many as 4,200 patients and pocketing the resulting profits.
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A jump in prescriptions being issued for drugs touted as possible treatments for COVID-19 has prompted two Missouri health agencies to issue guidelines…
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The Missouri House of Representatives passed legislation on Monday to create a statewide prescription drug monitoring program. The program, designed to...