Santa Rosa police issued another warning about the extreme toxic danger of fentanyl after a toddler died possibly because of exposure to the drug.
. The parents are in custody and police are warning about the extreme toxic danger of having the drug inside a home.That was proven Monday morning when police got a call of an unresponsive toddler at an apartment on Sonoma Avenue, just a few hundred yards from police headquarters.
The child, identified by police as 15-month-old Charlotte Frostick, was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Police said there was packaged and unpackaged fentanyl and paraphernalia in various rooms in the house, including in the bed she shared with her parents. "You look at toddlers and little babies, the first thing they're doing is touching whatever's around them and touching their face, touching their mouth, their nose, their eyes," said Sgt. Mahurin. "And those are easy ingestion points for a child."
Because it's cheap, fentanyl is being mixed into other street drugs, causing overdoses to people who didn't even mean to take it. Data shows that Sonoma County alone is averaging about two fentanyl overdoses per day. Costa said that danger is starting to sink in with young people her age.
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