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Pharmaceutical poisoning remains a common childhood injury, despite years of concerted prevention efforts, such as improved safe guards on packaging. Over half a million children are exposed to pharmaceuticals each year. A new study soon to be published in The Journal of Pediatrics attempts to understand this growing problem to aid in the progress of reducing the number of childhood injuries due to pharmaceutical poisoning. Read more...
The Olympian, April 29, 2011. Local law enforcement agencies want you to drop off unused prescription drugs at one of several sites Saturday, instead of flushing them down the toilet or letting them linger in the medicine cabinet. Read more...
Reuters, April 19, 2011. President Barack Obama's administration unveiled on Tuesday a plan to fight what it calls a prescription drug abuse epidemic. Read more...
Thurston Talk, March 29, 2011. Washington residents let millions of containers of medications gather dust in their homes each year, where the pills often end up in the wrong hands. Read more...