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Missouri’s Senate advanced Senate Bill 63 this week in a move to become the last state in the Nation to create a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (“PDMP”). The bill would establish a Joint Oversight Task Force for Prescription Drug Monitoring, if adopted by the House of Representatives and signed by Governor Parson.
The Task Force would be required to contract with a vendor to operate the PDMP. Further, the state run PDMP would supersede any local or county PDMP, such as St. Louis County’s PDMP which serves nearly half of Missouri today. Missouri’s proposed PDMP follows similar reporting requirements for dispensers of controlled substances in other states.
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Missouri legislators try to pass prescription monitoring database bill for the tenth time
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri is the only state without a database that monitors prescription drugs given to patients, but that could change soon.
On Tuesday, the Missouri Senate passed Senate Bill 63, which establishes a statewide prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) in order to address the ongoing opioid crisis. This is the tenth time a bill like this has gone through the process.
Missouri is the only state without a prescription drug monitoring program and is also 14th in the nation for opioid-involved overdose deaths, as of 2018.
Jim Marshall is the founder of Codyâs Gift, which is a nonprofit organization aiming to educate youth on the dangers of substance abuse. His son, Cody Marshall, died in 2011 after an opioid-involved overdose. Marshall now travels across Missouri to speak about his sonâs story and destigmatize negative attitudes surrounding addiction.
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Overdose deaths in Pennsylvania will likely tick upward for the first time in several years when 2020 reports are finalized, according to state officials, showing the effects of a year marked by isolation and a cutoff of group and in-person services.
Overdose drug deaths were higher month over month for the first half of 2020 as compared to the same months in 2019, according to updates given by state officials Tuesday on the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.
Because records regarding drug overdose deaths often lag behind the deaths themselves by 3 to 6 months, said Carrie Ann Thomas Goetz, a member of the PDMP office, it is likely numbers from the latter half of 2020 will show increases as well.