Opioid medications not safely stored in homes with children

28 February 2017

Nearly 70 percent of prescription opioid medications kept in homes with children are not stored safely, a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds.
In a national survey of 681 adults who used opioid pain relievers in the past year and had children ages 17 and younger living with them, only 31 percent reported safely storing them away from their children. Among those homes with children 7 to 17 years old, just 12 percent reported safe storage. The researchers defined safe storage as keeping the medication in a locked or latched place for younger children and a locked place for older children. The findings appear in the journal Pediatrics.
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