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Severity of calls to US poison centers increases sharply for both adults, kids - EurekAlert


The number of calls about intentional exposures, such as illegal drug overdoses, that resulted in death among adults increased a whopping 233.9% between the beginning of 2007 and the end of 2021. And that's just one of several troubling poisoning trends.

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