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Marijuana exposures in young children rise in Colorado, prompt vigilance
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30155
Subject(s) - vigilance (psychology) , medicine , pediatrics , recreation , emergency department , depression (economics) , psychiatry , medical emergency , emergency medicine , environmental health , demography , psychology , political science , neuroscience , law , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
Data from a children's hospital and a regional poison center in Colorado suggest that the state's recreational marijuana law has contributed to an increase in unintentional pediatric exposures with potential health effects. A pediatric emergency medicine specialist who co‐authored the study told CPU that most of the young patients that have been seen in these cases have had generally resolvable symptoms such as drowsiness and problems with balance, although in a handful of cases significant respiratory depression has occurred.