Dems pick up deep-red legislative seat in Missouri
Democrats won an exurban St. Louis seat in the Missouri state House of Representatives on Tuesday, racking up another victory in a district carried easily by President Trump in the 2016 election.
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch ... n-missouri
start to drift to voting democrat and get hit with the new war on drugs
New numbers show prescription drug problems in Jefferson CountyQuote:
The numbers are in and they're not good for Jefferson County.
A prescription drug monitoring program, or PDMP, launched last year across 32 Missouri cities and counties found Jefferson County has the third-highest rate of controlled substance prescriptions.
Those numbers are concerning to some who pushed for the PDMP. But they feel the program is working by providing more hard evidence of the drug problem across Missouri.
Pharmax Pharmacy manager Erin Gooch spends plenty of time at her location in Festus filling prescriptions for potentially-addictive opioid medicines that are tracked by the PDMP.
“It’s every day,” said Gooch.
Numbers from the Jefferson County PDMP show an average of 2.1 prescriptions per resident. That's higher than the 1.6 average across all other locations in the program. Opioids comprised approximately 40 percent of all controlled substances dispensed.
Gooch said that alone isn't necessarily a bad thing.
“We have lots of access to medical care. So, I think that could be a reason for more prescriptions,” she said.
What is bad is the fact overdose deaths more than doubled the number of people killed in car crashes in Jefferson County in 2016. Gooch said the PDMP makes it easier for pharmacists to say no to people who may be abusing or diverting the medicines..........
not sure what traffic deaths in a rural area have to do with overdose deaths, would think economics and job/ personal security would be the more likely culprits
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......Vollmar knows not all prescriptions are being abused. “But, the more that are out there the more potential there is for abuse.”.......