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Two of our colleagues, Jay L. Schauben, Pharm.D., director the Florida Poison Information Center and Edward Krenzlok, Pharm.D., director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center contributed to an article on drugs.com: Medicines Pose Greater Threat to Kids than Chemicals. The entire article can be found here: http://www.drugs.com/news/medicines-pose-greater-threat-kids-than-chemicals-26712.html.
The most worrisome finding, is that according to Centers for Disease [...]
The rate of unintentional drug poisonings (drug overdoses) has climbed steadily since 1990 and has now reached epidemic proportions. In the 1970′s and 1980′s, the annual rate of mortality was < 2 deaths per 100,000 people per year. Compare that with rates now that are almost 9-10 deaths per 100,000 people per year. In 2007 [...]
Wow, in the span of just a few weeks, we’ve come across another product that is used to lock away medications.
This product is also called MedSafe and can be found here: www.helpsaveourkids.com. The company’s product information describes the product as: MedSafe is made of impact resistant polymer with a state of the art [...]
