June is National Safety Month:

What You Should Know

* In 2006, a total of 27,531 people in the United States died from unintentional poisoning.
* In 2008, more than 2,000 people a day— a total of 732,316— were seen in emergency departments after a poisoning incident.
* Unintentional poisoning deaths are on the rise. Poisoning death rates in the United States increased by 63% from 1999 to 2004.
* 96% of unintentional poisoning deaths are a result of drug poisoning—and more than half of them are due to prescription drugs.
* An estimated 71,000 children (18 years old and younger) are seen in emergency departments each year because of medication poisonings (excluding recreational drug use). Over 80% were because an unsupervised child found and consumed