Opiods are poisoning our Youth

Researchers have gathered all the evidence and found that from 1997 to 2012 opiod hospitalizations from kids age 1-4 have risen by 205% while ages 15-19 rose by 151%. The difference between these numbers isn't a whole lot, but the reasoning is. Most of the kids ages 1-4 were accidental ingestion, while the older group took these drugs in an act of self harm. The fact that these numbers are going up could be due to the rise in use, in 2012 almost 259 million painkillers were prescribed
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Some safety measures have been proposed like education and better child proof lids. Parents need to treat pills like dangerous drugs because in the wrong hand that is what they are. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/well/family/opioid-poisonings-rise-sharply-among-toddlers-and-teens.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FPoisoning%20and%20Poisons&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0