Poison centers receive 32 calls a day about kids exposed to prescription opioids

Monday, March 20, 2017 - 09:01 in Health & Medicine

A new study found that there were more than 188,000 calls to US Poison Control Centers for pediatric exposure to opioids from January 2000 through December 2015, averaging 32 calls a day or one every 45 minutes.

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