Campaign Targets Unsupervised Pediatric Drug Ingestion
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a public-private safe-medication initiative launch the “Up and Away and Out of Sight” campaign to educate caregivers about how to stop curious children from consuming drugs without supervision.
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