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With the swipe of a pen, Missouri will soon become the last state in the nation to establish a statewide prescription drug monitoring program.

With the swipe of a pen Monday, Missouri will soon become the last state in the nation to establish a statewide prescription drug monitoring program. After

The bill now heads to Gov. Mike Parson for his signature or veto. Sen. Holly Rehder, a Sikeston Republican who has sponsored the PDMP bill for the last nine years, watched the vote from the side gallery. “I’m just so thankful,” she said, wiping tears away. “I’m just very thankful.” The bill would establish a “Joint Oversight Task Force for Prescription Drug Monitoring,” which would be made up of licensed healthcare professionals, like physicians and pharmacists, who would overse...

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...

Isabella Luu did not know when she would be able to receive her COVID-19 vaccine in Athens. Because of this, Luu and many other students made hour-long treks outside of Athens to get vaccinated. “I’m out of state from a small town. I wasnt sure if Id be able to get the vaccines very soon in Iowa, so I figured that if an opportunity came up for me here that I would grab it,” said Luu, a sophomore journalism and anthropology major at the University of Georgia. People have scr...

Dr. Garth Russo, Executive Director of the University Health Center, explains what you can expect in this walk-through of the vaccination site.