A Missouri task force is focused on finding ways to prevent addiction and improve drug treatment.

Robert Headley, a board member of Lane Change—a Christian nonprofit recovery center in southern Missouri’s Lebanon, shared how losing his daughter to drugs drives his push for more funding to help rural communities fight addiction.

“She went nine years in remission, and in 2018 the disease come back in full force,” Headley told the Missouri House Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Task Force this week in Jefferson City. “Laclede County did not get funding from this opioid settlement, where the 80 counties around us got roughly $90 million. I believe was the first round of it. And my understanding is there’s going to be the bulk of the $900 million that Missouri is going to get is comin

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