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Vicky Hartzler (Courtesy: Missourinet)

Hartzler backs state PDMP effort

Local congresswoman Vicky Hartzler got an update from Boone Hospital officials about opioid overdoses during a stop this week in Columbia.

The Republican U.S. Representative says she supports a system to track what drugs patients are getting.

“Missouri is the only state in the union that does not have this prescription drug monitoring program, and I think that makes us vulnerable,” Hartzler said, according to Missourinet.

The Missouri House has passed a prescription drug monitoring bill. It’s now in the Senate. Most of the state, including Boone County, falls under St. Louis County’s PDMP now.

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