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Missouri Healthcare Associations Issue Guidelines To Curb Painkiller Abuse

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Six healthcare associations in Missouri released new guidelines last week to assist their members in reducing the number of pain medications they are prescribing. Louis Post-Dispatch. The post Missouri Healthcare Associations Issue Guidelines To Curb Painkiller Abuse appeared first on Associations Now.

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“Right to Farm” Amendment Stirs Up Passions in Missouri

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The amount raised by groups for and against Missouri’s Amendment 1 since January 1, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Supporters such as the Missouri Farm Bureau have raised $1 million through the Missouri Farmers Care umbrella group. “We are not against breeding.

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Better Because You Were There

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This was shortly after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. Following those shootings, a number of association conferences pulled out of — or dropped from their consideration — nearby Orlando and St. Louis as meeting destinations.

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Mental Health Groups Focus on a Fragile Ferguson

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With the impact of the grand jury decision in the police shooting of Michael Brown still fresh for residents of Ferguson, Missouri, mental health groups are offering support and counseling to community members dealing with anger and grief. A week before the decision, Missouri Gov. Louis area and hundreds more to Ferguson.

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Dueling Boards for One Nonprofit: Would You Do this for Your Association?

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That’s what has happened with “big five cultural institutions” in St. Louis (Zoo, Art Museum, Science Center, Botanical Garden & History Museum). Louis Post-Dispatch (P-D) has been running a series of articles about the Missouri History Museum (MHM) “gone wild” in going around its politically-appointed commissioners.

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American Library Association’s Ferguson Memorial Damaged

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A tree planted in Ferguson, Missouri, in memory of Michael Brown—the teenager fatally shot last year by a local police officer—was ripped in half last weekend the day after it was planted. Instead, it has become a symbol of the most trying divisions in Ferguson, Missouri. Louis later this year, told The St.

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Obama Military-Surplus Rule Change Draws Mixed Response

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In its place will be new standards for “effective community policing”—a clear response to recent outbreaks of violence between police and civil rights activists in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere. NTOA praised the bill, which also has support from the NAACP and a number of local police department groups in the St.