JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- House members on Monday voted to make Missouri the last state to adopt a prescription drug monitoring program aimed at cutting back at opioid misuse and doctor shopping.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Within the coming weeks, Missouri health care providers will be able to track a patient’s prescriptions with the goal of preventing overdoses and opioid abuse. Missouri is the ...

The monitoring program was created a decade ago in response to reports of widespread prescription drug abuse in Southwest Virginia. In a practice known as doctor-shopping, abusers go from one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 9—After a bruising legislative battle that took years, a statewide prescription drug monitoring program finally is ready to ...

Senate Bill 4834 would remove testosterone from the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program, a database created to track ...

State Rep. Holly Rehder, R-Sikeston, has been championing the need for a statewide database to track addictive prescription drugs for five years. With the Missouri House on the verge of passing her ...

Missouri's prescription drug monitoring database went online last week. Health workers will now need to enter patient information into a statewide database when they dispense opioids and other ...

New Jersey's Division of Consumer Affairs has launched a new app for iPhones that will allow authorized users of the state’s prescription monitoring program, prescribers and pharmacists licensed in ...