As illegal drugs become more potent, it increases the odds that just a small amount could lead to overdose.
Thousands of kids are sent to emergency room each year because parents or grandparents failed to properly secure medications.
Public health campaigns should account for regional differences in drug activity and overdoses, researchers say.
Excessive doses of vitamin D can lead to high levels of calcium in the blood, which can trigger kidney damage.
Reports of poisoning from this unregulated herbal substance have jumped 50-fold in the past six years.
The risk is great as people take over-the-counter medications designed to treat multiple symptoms.
The majority of overdose deaths are attributed to prescription painkillers.
Children under age 6 are often the most affected.
Opioid fentanyl and related street drugs highly lethal, addictive.
