SHOW ME STATE? THEN, SHOW US...NOW!

I'm fed up with the Missouri State Senate. FED UP. We are the ONLY State in the United States who does not have the prescription drug monitoring program. WHY??? We have a crisis in this state, just like every other state in the United States--only guess what? People are running to Missouri to doctor hop because we look like a bunch of fools. We are the candy house for doctor hopping and pill popping.

What is the problem? Seriously? Cut out the political nonsense and get this law passed. Do you understand that kids are dying? Do you understand that addiction is skyrocketing in your state? Do you understand that heroin use is at an all time high because of the amount of abuse that you have allowed to continue in this state? Do you understand that people are crossing our state line because we have no such laws? Do you understand that you are making it harder for states like Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma to enforce their own laws because of US??? They can't keep a handle on their own states because all it takes is their resident's to drive 30 minutes into the border of Missouri and buy all the pills they want. There are 18 year olds that can go to several lovely cash pay doctors in town here and get all the meds they need. They get Adderall, Hydros, Klonopin, whatever because some conscious-less pill pusher has no accountability with our state government. Fortunately there are some good pharmacies around who have enforced their own rules to try to curb this problem--but then we have our own government leaders who own pharmacies in Springfield who have milked the same system they choose not to change. WHAT ON EARTH IS WRONG WITH THIS STATE?

Our local police and task forces are getting virtually no federal funding dollars. No one is helping our law enforcement stop this problem and rather, you all are sitting all fat and happy up in Jeff City doing absolutely nothing to help them.

I read in the local Joplin Globe that one of our own state representatives doesn't even think we have a drug problem.  Mr. Davis--are you blind to what is going on around you in Joplin, Missouri???

Now, I see a horrifying MURDER with 4 teens involved in Southwest Missouri over a Mexican Drug Cartel.

WAKE UP. WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING FOR YOUR FAMILIES IN MISSOURI.

I refuse to make my blog a political one--because it is about MY family...and I shouldn't have to fight the battle...but if my own state reps and senator don't see this epidemic happening--then let me educate you. Look around you. Step outside of your little perfect box and see the real world.

No one cares about your petty political agendas and bickering. Get off your duffs and do what is right for the families in Missouri. NOW. My daughter may not mean anything to you---but is it going to take your own children to die from this epidemic to see that it is a problem?

PASS THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG MONITORING PROGRAM NOW.

GET SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SOME FUNDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OF THIS DRUG PROBLEM.

SAVE OUR KIDS AND FAMILIES.