Drug and Poison Information Center | Newsletters

In this issue: 

• Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Bureau of Prevention
• New Safety Warnings for Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics
• 2018-2019 Update for Influenza Prevention & Treatment
• Dragon’s Breath
• C-COTS Two Year Evaluation Results
• FDA Approves New Drug Epidiolex®, a Cannabidiol Product
• Aiming to Decrease Pediatric Adverse Events: Responsible Use of Antibiotics
• Unusual Uses of Personal Activity Trackers
• Valsartan Recall
• Medical Marijuana in Ohio

In this issue:

• Frequently Asked Questions about the Poison Control Center
• Field Testing of Unknown Substances
• The Kratom Differential
• Kambo Ritual
• Lucemyra Approved for Mitigation of Opiate Withdrawal Symptoms
• Severe Illness Related to Tainted Synthetic Cannabinoids
• Responding to the Heroin Epidemic
• Drug and Poison Information Center: Tips for a Safe Summer
• Safeguarding Infants & Young Children from Addictive Substances

In this issue:

• National Poison Prevention Week 2018
• Drug and Poison Information Center Launches Shatter The Myths about Heroin and Marijuana Media Campaign
• Overview of the 34th Annual Report of AAPCC’s NPDS
• Nitrates and Nitrites– Blue is Not your Color
• JUULing: Fast Facts
• When the Weather is Cold these Drugs may Increase Susceptibility to the Risk of Hypothermia and/or Frostbite
• FDA approved Device may help to reduce symptoms of Opioid Withdrawal
• The Dark Web: Buy Anything You Didn’t Know You Could
• Dangerous Drugs: Special Focus on Cleveland, OH.
• Poison Prevention in the Blind and Low Vision Populations
• First Ingestible Digital Tracker
• Relaxation without Intoxication
• The Dangers of Self– Medication in Children with Over-The-Counter Drugs
• Fluad, The First Approved Flu Vaccine with Adjuvant MF59
• Triclosan

In this issue:

• Remembering Alton Chris Nelms 
• Holiday Hazards
• The 21st Century CURES Act 
• Legal Consequences for Foreign Fentanyl Manufacturers
• Emergency Preparedness
• Rexulti (brexipiprazole)
• Options for Reversing Anticoagulant Effects of New Oral Anticoagulant Drugs
• Preventing Foodborne Illnesses During the Holidays
  
  

In this issue:

• C-COTS Year One Evaluation Results
• Preventing Occupational Fentanyl and Fentanyl analog Exposures in Emergency Responders
• Water awareness and Algal Blooms 
• Fake Oxycontin Tablets: Cuyahoga County
• Emerging Threat Report
• NIOSH Plans New Location
• Marijuana Slang: Terms you May or May not Know
• Safe Medicine Storage
• Charcoal – Not Just for the Barbeque Grill, a New Mechanism for the Safe Disposal of Medications
• Opana ER Withdrawn from the Market
• Dangerous Curiosity
• Kentucky Makes Headlines with Gabapentin
• Summer Poison Safety – Bites
• Summer Poison Safety – Cooking
• Summer Poison Safety – Pesticides
• Summer Poison Safety – Plants

In this issue:

• DPIC Celebrates NPPW
• Food for Thought
• A New Approach to Substance Abuse: The Icelandic Model
• A Review of "The Secret History of Lead" by Jamie Lincoln Kinman
• Food Safety Questions
• Opioid Poisoning Increase in Children
• Cuyahoga County: Opioid Epidemic
• Phosphone Gas
• Poison Center Snapshot (2015)
• Dripping
• Hysingla ER
• Caralluma Fimbriata versus Obesity
• Vraylar (Cariprazine) Drug Review
• Supervised Injection Facilities
• Tamiflu Psychosis
• Emerging Threat Report, 1st Quarter - 2017
• Spotlight on a Poison Specialist - Debra Roll RPh, CSPI

In this issue:

• National Poison Prevention Week
• Spotlight on a Poison Center Specialist– Melissa Huber
• Cannabis that could replace pills?
• Fun with Mary Jane and Joe
• “Drunkorexia”
• Shiitake Mushroom Dermatitis
• Ohio House Bill 388 “Annie’s Law”
• Epicenter Report for Oct 26-Nov1, 2016
• Drug and Alcohol Facts Week
• POCWA Community Gems Focuses on Addressing Childhood Trauma
• Opioid Overdoses Through the Years
• DEA announces McKesson will pay record $150 million settlement for failure to report suspicious orders of prescription painkillers
• Welcome Soliqua 100/33 & Adlyxin at a Pharmacy Near You
• Winter Poison Safety
• NACCT 2017

In this issue:

• The beginning or the END?
• E-cigarette explosions
• Codeine in Children
• Cannabinoid hyperemesis and capsaicin
• It’s that time of the year again... Carbon Monoxide
• The opioid disconnection: Why kids are placed in harm’s way
• Comparison chart of opioid doses
• Contaminants all around us: What is in your glass of water?
• Cincinnati Children’s to Study the Impact of Childhood Trauma
• Poison Control Center QR code
• Traveling to Florida for the holidays: Zika—what you should know
• Simple steps you can take to protect your family from lead hazards

In this issue:

• Heroin Laced with Elephant Sedatives

• Harmful Algal Blooms

• First Implantable Drug Probuphine to Treat Opioid Addiction

• Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the US

• Protecting Ohio from the Zika Virus

• Heroin Hopeline

• Essential Oils

• DPIC Receives Grant to Implement the C-COTS

• FBI and DEA Team Up to Educate about Opiate Addiction

• Summer Serenade

• Summer Safety Tips

In this issue: 

• The Grim Reaper Fentanyl

• Poison Prevention Tips
• Alcohol testing & Ethyl Glucuronide
• 30 ml of Prevention
• National Poison Prevention Week
• Not So Yummy Chips
• College Prescription
• National Poison Prevention Week Infographics
• Increases in Fentanyl Drug Confiscations & Fatalities
• Zika Virus
• Poison Center Data Snapshot – 2014