Senate Bill 514, signed by Gov. Mike Parson earlier this month, says that dentists should restrict opioid prescriptions to no more than the equivalent of 10 regular Vicodin pills per day and shouldn’t prescribe long-acting opioids like Oxycontin at all.

A new Missouri law limits the dosage and type of opioid pain medications prescribed by the state’s dentists — amid mounting evidence that painkillers after routine dental work are contributing to the national addiction epidemic.

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