Campaign Targets Unsupervised Pediatric Drug Ingestion

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a public-private safe-medication initiative launch the “Up and Away and Out of Sight” campaign to educate caregivers about how to stop curious children from consuming drugs without supervision.

An education campaign to reduce children’s unsupervised exposure to drugs builds on existing efforts to limit misuse of pediatric OTCs.

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of a public-private safe-medication initiative on the “Up and Away and Out of Sight”...

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