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From the American Association of Poison Control Centers:
For Immediate Release April 13, 2011
American Association of Poison Control Centers: Poison Centers Federal Appropriations Cut by Nearly 25 percent in Proposed FY 2011 Continuing Resolution; Damaging Impact to States’ Ability to Help Citizens
Alexandria, Va. –U.S. poison centers suffered a nearly 25 percent cut in [...]
A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital examined emergency department (ED) visits for drug-related poisonings and found that in just one year (2007) in the U.S., there were approximately 700,000 ED visits costing nearly $1.4 billion in ED charges alone. This [...]
The following comes from an editorial in the New York Times published online March 3, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/opinion/04fri4.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=poison%20control&st=cse.
Cutting Poison Control
PRESIDENT’S F.Y. 2010-11 REQUEST: $29 MILLION
HOUSE VOTED: $2 MILLION
Eliminating nearly all the money for poison control centers would save $27 million — not even a rounding error when [...]
