Republican state Senator Rob Schaaf has blocked attempts to set up a prescription drug monitoring system in Missouri for years.

Missouri is the only state not monitoring prescription drug use. Will it finally create a database?

A long-running battle to establish a database to monitor for prescription drug abuse in Missouri — the only state without one — is about to hit a boiling point.

On one side is Republican state Senator Rob Schaaf, who once said that when people die of overdoses that “just removes them from the gene pool.”