Psychoactive Calls Increased

Robert Preidt, of HealthDay Reporter, recently posted an article on the increased calls to poison control for psychoactive. Marijuana, kratom, magic mushrooms and nutmeg are natural substances with psychoactive effects. These have triggered more than 67,300 calls to U.S. Poison Control Center over nearly two decades.

These many calls make an average of about 3,743 calls a year between January 2000 and December 2017, or around 10 calls a day. This information is according to the researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

Of these cases about 9 in 10 occurred at a home, 64% were …read more