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As Nitazenes invade Missouri, lawmakers act fast to stop the synthetic opioid stronger than fentanyl and dubbed “Frankenstein Opioids"

2 men are going to prison for their role in laundering nearly $1 million dollars for a drug cartel in Missouri.

A Texas man is now in custody and charged with two class X felonies after a truck he was driving in Illinois was found to contain 40 pounds of cocaine.

A man is accused of receiving meth through the mail in Missouri with plans to sell it so he could return to California.

A traffic stop in Missouri for a moving violation turned into much more than that when 53 bricks full of cocaine were discovered.

A normal traffic stop by the Missouri State Highway Patrol quickly turned into something else altogether.

Two arrested in Illinois after state police uncovered 1811 grams of meth in their possession during a traffic stop.

I've said before that I tend to be naive and I like it that way. Unfortunately, I now have new numbers that are impossible to ignore that shows the drug problem in Missouri really is much worse than we thought.

As if there weren't already enough problematic drugs on the streets of Missouri, now there is a brand new one to be concerned about. Reports say it will eventually be in every state in America, but it's not headed to Illinois. As a matter of fact, it's already here.

There are only 4 states with worse drug problems than Missouri according to a new ranking, why can't Missouri get control of its drug problem? And what does the data say is the biggest concern in the Show-Me State?