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There’s an important campaign being launched by the CDC to protect children from unintentional medication overdoses. The campaign is called, Up and Away and Out of Sight.
From the CDC website:
http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/?p=2070
Keeping Medicines Up and Away and Out of Sight of Toddlers
December 13th, 2011 2:53 pm ET
Up And Away Campaign
National Poison Prevention week is March 14-20, 2010.
More than 2 million poisonings are reported each year to the 61 Poison Control Centers across the country. The majority of poisonings occur in the home and involve children younger than 6 years old.
National Poison Prevention Week was established by Congress in 1961 and designated as the [...]
Medication safety is something we constantly think about at medicationsafe.com. Dr. Ben has been at the poison control center for 10 years and deals with poisonings in children, teenagers and adults daily. Finally, there is a product that can be used to lock up medications securely. It’s called the Rx Locker.
We first came across the product through [...]
