Early research on opioid poisonings in children is getting national attention out of CHOP, which has seen at least four children die of opioid poisonings since 2012.
A number of 5-mg pills of Oxycodone are displayed in 2019. New research suggests that most cases of opioid poisonings in children are due to kids swallowing prescription pills -- but those cases are decreasing, even as poisonings involving fentanyl and other illicit opioids are increasing.Good morning.
No one knows why, but Quidgley-Martin thinks doctors or first responders may not always suspect opioid poisonings in children, or may not feel comfortable giving naloxone to a child, though it’s safe for them.is actually going down. That’s probably because kids are most likely to ingest prescription pills containing opioids, and doctors aren’t prescribing as many these days.
“When I ask my patients why they don’t want more COVID vaccines, they usually say that they ‘have had enough,’ are ‘no longer worried’ about COVID, or ‘the pandemic is over,’” he writes for The Inquirer.
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