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National Poison Prevention Week falls during the third full week of March which marks a great time to get educated on preventing poisons. Congress established National Poison Prevention Week in 1961 to help raise awareness, reduce unintentional poisonings and promote poison prevention.
A poison is considered any substance, including medications, which can be harmful to your body if too much is ingested, inhaled, injected or absorbed through the skin. An accidental poisoning occurs when a person unintentionally takes too much of a substance and does not mean to cause harm.
The Texas Poison Center Network (TPCN) wants to help spread awareness and remind the community to contact a poison center in the event of a possible poisoning. Throughout the third week of March, educators all over the country will be holding educational activities to help promote awareness about poison control services.
The TPCN provides educational materials for ordering and you can do it directly from their website so here's your chance to get educated!
If you are located in Texas, please visit www.poisoncontrol.org where you can order poison prevention pamphlets such as:
*Poison Prevention Guide
*Poison Safety Tips for Baby's First Year
*Bites and Stings
*Poisonous Plants
*Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
In the event that you or someone with you has been poisoned, first remain calm. Then call the toll-free Poison Help line immediately at 1-800-222-1222 and get connected to your local poison center. Peace of mind and help when you need it is just a phone call away.
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Be sure to check out our latest Youtube video to Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off" where we remind the community to not induce vomiting. We are here to help so call us when you need us at 1-800-222-1222
And, don't forget, you are always welcome to use any part or all of this newsletter to help prevent poisonings and raise awareness of poison center services! Learn more at www.PoisonControl.org, including how to contact your local poison center educator for health fairs, trainings and presentations.
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The club drug "Molly" may have an innocent name, but it's anything but, experts say.
Eleven Wesleyan University students were recently hospitalized over the weekend after taking the drug, leaving one of them in critical condition, university officials said in a letter to students.
"There is no such thing as good batch of MDMA," said Drug Enforcement Agency spokesman special agent Joseph Moses.
Drug dealers have marketed Molly as pure MDMA, the main ingredient in the synthetic psychoactive drug, ecstasy, but it's often counterfeit.
Moses said only about 13 percent of Molly seized is actually MDMA. Instead, the Molly found today is a synthetic drug smuggled into the United States from China that's an atom or two off, making it even more dangerous.
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