Kansas, Missouri Consider an End to Paper Prescriptions

Government Technology: In 2013 four Missourians were charged with stealing a prescription pad from a psychiatrist and using it to forge prescriptions for opioids and Xanax that they filled at multiple pharmacies.

In 2016 a University of Kansas pharmacy intern lost his license after he stole a pad from a Topeka hospital where he worked and used it to forge prescriptions for opioid pills that he used and sold.

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