{"id":2589,"date":"2016-04-14T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2016-04-14T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:44:31","slug":"political-gridlock-blocks-missouri-database-for-fighting-drug-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2589","title":{"rendered":"Political Gridlock Blocks Missouri Database For Fighting Drug Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bram Sable-Smith, Side Effects Public Media in partnership with Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>At Richard Logan\u2019s pharmacy in Charleston, Missouri, prescription opioid painkillers are locked away in a cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri law requires pharmacies to keep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dea.gov\/druginfo\/ds.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">schedule II<\/a> controlled substances \u2014 drugs like oxycodone and fentanyl with a high addiction potential \u2014 locked up at all times.<\/p>\n<p>Logan goes further than the law requires.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been a pharmacist for 40 years. For the last 20, he has also been a reserve deputy with two local sheriff\u2019s departments, investigating prescription drug abuse. That puts him on edge in his day job. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/political-gridlock-blocks-missouri-database-for-fighting-drug-abuse\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=28438179&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-83WtwXwuIS5D_38XjftNA2xEZS0KWpPfajoj2V88cFcdsi2Dm3VmEpLXTCVW1TF58YXNESfCdVhAWJseMZgiObUyO5Ow&amp;_hsmi=28438179\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bram Sable-Smith, Side Effects Public Media in partnership with Kaiser Health News) At Richard Logan\u2019s pharmacy in Charleston, Missouri,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}