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Some of the Youngest Opioid Victims are Curious Toddlers

Curious toddlers find the drugs in a mother's purse or accidentally dropped on the floor. Sometimes a parent fails to secure the child-resistant cap on a bottle of painkillers.   No matter how it happens, if a 35-pound toddler grabs just one opioid pill, chews it and releases the full concentration of a time-released adult drug into their small bodies, death can come swiftly.   These are some of the youngest victims of the nation's opioid epidemic — children under...


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