Drugging Kids a Form of Abuse

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Giving children pharmaceuticals for nontherapeutic reasons may be an under-recognized form of abuse, a retrospective study showed.

Data from U.S. poison control centers revealed an average of 160 cases of "malicious" use of pharmaceuticals in children younger than 7 annually over a nine-year period, Shan Yin, MD, MPH, of Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center in Denver, reported online in the Journal of Pediatrics.