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Opioid-related deaths on the rise for children under five

According to a study published by the medical journal Pediatrics, children under the age of five who have died from drug-related overdoses has been on the rise since 2005. Researchers says most of these overdoses involved opioids. The study notes more than 40% of the fatal poisonings were accidental overdoses.

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