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8 October 2017

The Pills Are Everywhere’: How the Opioid Crisis Claims Its Youngest Victims

When Penny Mae Cormani died in Utah, her family sang Mormon hymns — “Be Still My Soul” — and lowered her small coffin into the earth. The latest victim of a drug epidemic that is now taking 60,000 lives a year, Penny was just 1.
Increasingly, parents and the police are encountering toddlers and young children unconscious or dead after consuming an adult’s opioids.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/us/opioid-deaths-children.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170920&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y