Household Safety: Medications, Poisons, and Other Hazards

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.

This one-minute video provides tips on how parents can ensure they are safely using over-the-counter medicine with their children.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.