Abstract
Abstract This paper is a retrospective review of patients treated in a pediatric hospital emergency room for non‐accidental acute drug ingestions during a twelve month period. Typically, patient charts contained little information relevant to attempts to evaluate the lethality potential of such life threatening behavior. The types of drugs, post‐emergency room dispositions, demographic data of patients, and time of admissions were analyzed to learn who was treated, for what drug reactions, and what occurred following emergency room medical treatment. Few patients or their parents were seen by a mental health professional prior to being discharged from the emergency room.
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