When Beth Stubbs receives a prescription for painkillers from a faraway state, she knows she’s likely in for some extra work.
The pharmacist at Kilgore’s Pharmacy has seen an influx of out-of-state prescriptions in the past year and a half, and she thinks she knows why: Missouri is the only state in the nation that doesn’t have a prescription drug monitoring program.
Such programs are used to identify people who abuse painkillers and doctors who overprescribe them.
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