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(HealthDay)—The youngest victims of America’s addiction crisis are not the teenagers tempted by tobacco, pot and pills.
Rather, they are tens of thousands of toddlers and preschoolers who are accidentally poisoned when they get into the drug stash of a parent or older sibling, claims a new report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
In 2016, U.S. poison control centers received an estimated 30,250 reports of children aged 5 and younger sickened by a wide array of addictive substances—everything from tobacco and e-cigarettes to marijuana and prescription opioid drugs, the report found.
“We think this is a largely overlooked problem as people think about and talk about the problem of substance abuse and addiction in our nation,” said lead researcher Linda Richter, director of policy research and analysis at the National Center on Addiction and Substance…
