Household Safety: Medications, Poisons, and Other Hazards

In this 5-minute video, Dr. Dan Budnitz visits Coffee with America to talk about dangers relating to children and medication. In this five-minute video, Dr. Budnitz talks about the risks and preventive measures of medication overdoses.

This guide sheds light on the most effective medications for specific disorders, as well as how to know if your child is getting the right dose and how and when children should be weaning off medication.

This simple infographic explains information parents should know about keeping medications safe from children, as well as common mistakes parents make in medication storage.

Easily accessible online, this children’s book story teaches children about the importance of medicine safety.

This website provides family guides (available in a variety of languages) about medication safety. The website also has videos, a game, and a digital storybook that provides more information about medication safety.

Children under age five are at a high risk for experiencing adverse drug events. This website provides information about the cause and suggestions to prevent adverse drug events.

In this report, practitioners discuss how Head Start is addressing the opioid crisis within communities. The report also includes recommendations for intervention based on Head Start’s successful models.

This webpage includes several resources on safety and medications.

This article include a research report on medication storage, an infographic, what parents can do to protect kids, and simple steps to medicine storage.

This organization provides expert telephone treatment, public education, and focused research related to poison incidence and injuries.

Young children do not understand the harmful effects of medication and other dangerous substances, so parents must be cautious. This website provides safety tips and a list of dangerous products that caregivers should keep out of reach of children.

Medication poisoning is one of the leading causes for emergency room visits for children under five years. This five-minute podcast discusses the dangers of drug poisonings and ways to prevent them in young children.

A study from the Tennessee Department of Health found that children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) were more likely to have a developmental delay or speech or language impairment in early childhood compared to children born without NAS. NAS is a serious withdrawal syndrome that can occur in newborns after exposure to opioids during pregnancy.

Children between one and five years old are at risk of death due to exposure to liquid nicotine. This article stresses the importance of keeping these products out of reach of children.

This website provides general information about medication safety for children. It includes information about dosing safety, mixing food with medication, and helping children take medicine.

This 20-page report provides an analysis of data from the National Poison Data System to better understand what types of medicine children are getting into and how it happens. Top tips to keep children safe (handout) is on page 4.

This resource for families describes what opioids are, how opioid use can lead to addiction, the opioid epidemic’s effect on children, and what parents can do.

This interactive game challenges the player to look at two pictures and choose which one is a medicine/pill and which one is candy. The purpose of this game is to encourage adults to keep medications and other harmful substances out of reach of children.

This 90-minute webinar focuses on the impact of prenatal exposure to opiates. The presenter talks about early childhood learning and behavior and intervention strategies that can promote long-term growth and development for children exposed to opiates in the prenatal period. There is also a handout that supplements the webinar.

This is a nonprofit organization that works hard to keep children safe from injury, including adverse drug events. The website provides tip-sheets, videos, infographics, research reports, and other helpful resources for parents and community members.

While families are staying in a hotel or at a friend’s home, it may be more difficult to keep medicine safe from children. This one-page tip sheet provides steps parents can take to prevent their child from accessing medication while away from home.

This one-minute video clip provides information about the dangers of child access to medications. It provides steps for parents to help keep their children safe.

Proper storage of medications is an important safety precaution that should be practiced to help keep young children safe. This website provides steps for parents to take to prevent medication-related accidents.

This simple infographic explains the risk of children having access to medication and provides ways for families to decrease the risk of adverse drug events.