OpinionApril 3, 2016
Speak Out 4/3/16
Missouri is in desperate need of Medication Assisted Treatments for opioid addicts. Buprenorphine (usually sold as Suboxone) has the potential to save thousands of lives through life saving medical intervention which correctly addresses such addictions as a public health issue. Knowing the nature of our head-in-the-sand state legislature, I fear most members know nothing about this and/or wouldn't do anything if they did. Prove me wrong, General Assembly...
Public health issue
Missouri is in desperate need of Medication Assisted Treatments for opioid addicts. Buprenorphine (usually sold as Suboxone) has the potential to save thousands of lives through life saving medical intervention which correctly addresses such addictions as a public health issue. Knowing the nature of our head-in-the-sand state legislature, I fear most members know nothing about this and/or wouldn't do anything if they did. Prove me wrong, General Assembly.
Family trips
Barack Obama has to be one of the most arrogant presidents we have had, and he is also the most clueless. First he has the family at a ballgame in Cuba doing the wave with their dictator, and now he is dancing the tango in Argentina while ISIS is setting off bombs in Brussels, and his response -- "We can't let ISIS interrupt our day-to-day activities because that would show they were winning." Really? This president is going to really enjoy his last nine months in office and take the royal family on many expensive trips on our tax dollar. Just watch!
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Diversity official
Are you kidding me? Now Mizzou has hired a "Diversity Official" at a salary of $235,000 per year? That is a waste of taxpayer money, and does not enhance the educational process at all. Our state officials need to do something about this. Perhaps Mizzou still has too much state funding.
Consumer penalty
I read with interest the article on meth increase in Missouri. Not long ago I could buy Sudafed for my sinuses at a local store for around $3. The lawyers decided Sudafed should be prescription in order to stop meth. I now need a doctor visit and then pay $10 dollars for it. Meth is on the increase. Who paid the penalty for this? I paid the penalty, and the producers are going strong. Something is wrong with this picture.
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