“The study’s findings tell us that children, especially infants, are collateral damage in the current opioid crisis.”
between 2005 and 2018, according to a study published this week, the majority of whom were babies 1 year of age or younger.
“The study’s findings tell us that children, especially infants, are collateral damage in the current opioid crisis,” said Dr. Toni Gross, chief of the emergency department at the, who was not involved in the study. “Children 5 years old or younger are unable to care or advocate for themselves, and are suffering fatal consequences from exposure to these substances.”
Many of the affected children also had an open child protective services case at the time of death or otherwise had a history of previous maltreatment, illness, disability, or sibling placement outside their home. Poverty, substance use disorder, and social inequities were also associated factors in fatal poisonings.
Researchers don’t know the reasons behind each fatal poisoning, but among the cases that do have this information available, about 41% of incidents were accidental overdoses and another 41% were due to other causes, such as medical treatment mishaps. Although these efforts were fruitful initially, poisoning mortality rates over time plateaued, the researchers said, and proved ineffective against deliberate poisonings and those from recreational substances.
But the most important thing parents and caregivers can do is to make sure prescription or recreational drugs are safely stored away from kids, said Gross, the emergency medicine doctor from Children's Hospital of New Orleans.
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