Drug and Poison Information Center

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• Opana ER Withdrawn from the Market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 

In this issue:

• Voke or vape

• Not your average candy

• Changing times: teens and e-cigarette use

• Weeding out the truth about edible marijuana

• UMADOAP of Ohio State Conference

• Dabbing

In this issue: 

• Hamilton County household hazardous waste collection event 
• Mosquitoes! Mosquitoes! Mosquitoes! 
• September is National Preparedness Month 
• Quadrivalent Flu Vaccine 
• Naloxone can now be acquired without an Rx in Ohio 
• National Toll Free Poison Center hotline
• Ohio House Bill 314 
• Giant hogweed invasion 
• Cuyahoga Corner

In this issue:

• Flakka – “la flaca” Spanish slang for “beautiful woman” 
• Synthetic cannabinoids 
• Brewing opioids 
• If you have to vape … 
• Drug trafficking in Hamilton County - 2014 
• Cannabis energy drink

In this issue:

• Safe kids 2015 
• Protecting children in your home 
• BAL -- on back order 
• Anthrasil – anthrax immune globulin for the treatment of inhalational anthrax 
• Anavip -- pit viper antivenin approved 
• National toll-free poison control center QR code
• Ohio House bill 314: prescribing opioids to minors
• Button battery ingestions reported to the NPDS 
• “Chasing the bean”: prescription drug smoking among socially active youth 
• Keep NSAIDs away from pets 
• Cuyahoga corner

In this issue:

• Dr. Death found in Superman pills
• Commonly abused over-the-counter and prescription medications
• Cuyahoga corner
• Palcohol
• National toll free poison center hotline
• Cystine – a tobacco treatment
• U. of Michigan’s Monitoring the future study excerpts from recent press releases

In this issue:

• Alcohol poisoning deaths

• Lethal dose of Nicotine

• Pregnancy labeling changes

• Herb-drug interactions

• National toll free hotline

• Poison prevention in your home

• 2013 annual report

• Dr. Cocoa for children

• Bisphenol A

• Yellow jug programs