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Medication Disposal - Training Module - Reason 2: Childern At Risk

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Published: Monday, 06 June 2016 10:10
Written by 340B Editor

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 Why Drug Disposal is Important

 

2. Medications in the trash could be accidentally found and consumed by children or animals.

Child in Trash

According to the CDC, more than 60,000 young children in the U.S. are treated in emergency rooms each year for accidental overdoses because they got into medicines when their parent or caregiver wasn’t looking

Each year, one in every 150 2-year-olds is treated in an emergency room for an unintentional drug overdose, usually after finding and eating or drinking medications without adult supervision.

 

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