Since Missouri does not have access to peoples records like other states do, many people visit Missouri just to get access to medication they will in turn abuse. They have a growing problem of people simply passing through their state to just get their drugs filled or completely moving to Missouri making population rates higher while also raising abuse rates. While most of Missouri’s legislature are voting in favor of the monitoring program there is a small group of people that are strongly against it. Rob Schaaf, a state senator, argues that allowing the government to have peoples personal medical records violates simple rights to privacy. Mr. Schaaf believes that neighboring states need stand up for themselves and their people and refuse the program to get the government out of their personal information. When asked about the database helping to keep people from abusing medications, Mr. Schaaf replied: “If they overdose and kill themselves, it just removes them from the gene pool.” There is a pharmacists named Richard Logan who lives in Sikeston, Missouri who has grown so fed up with people abusing prescriptions that he has a second job as a sheriff’s deputy to help track and reprimand people who are busted abusing the systems and medication. …show more content…
In other words, help stop the abuse before the program realizes there is abuse taking place. A researcher who wrote a report about the topic, John L. Eadie, says “While doctors may routinely collect and report data to a state program that signals where and when prescription painkillers are likely being misused, the program might not share that information with others who can best use it.” Another researcher that works with Eadie believes that programs should receive and go over the data and alert doctors and pharmacists and the local law enforcement and also people who can prevent or help with the addictions and abuse. (“Report: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Need to be More