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As Holdout Missouri Joins Nation in Monitoring Opioid Prescriptions, Experts Worry

Jul 27, 2021 Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide prescription drug monitoring program this June in an attempt to curb opioid addiction. The hairstylist turned activist estimated she made 75 two-hour trips in the past decade from her home in Fenton, a St. Louis suburb, to the state capital, Jefferson City, to convince Republican lawmakers that monitoring how doctors and pharmacists prescribe and dispense controlled substances could help save people like her son, Kevin Mullane. He was a poet and skateboarder who she said turned to drugs after she and his dad divorced. He started “doctor-shopping” at about age 17 and was able to obtain multiple prescriptions for the pain medication OxyContin. He died in 2009 at 21 from a heroin overdose.

As holdout Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry

As holdout Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry
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After Woman's Death, Report Raises Alarm Over 'Patient Dumping' From Psychiatric Hospitals

"The tragedy of CaSonya King’s unnecessary death appears attributable to an all-too-common practice called patient dumping," reads a new report from the Disability Law Center. "Patient dumping occurs when a hospital denies emergency medical care or inappropriately discharges a current patient, either upon learning that the individual is unable to pay for treatment, or for another reason."

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