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Keep prescription drugs locked up. (Medicines & Drugs).(Brief Article)

Get Smart About Drugs, (Grades 4 - 6), a Weekly Reader publication

| January 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Weekly Reader Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

You can't find me! You can't find me!" called 2-year-old Abby.

Mandy, her baby-sitter, smiled as she finished washing the dishes. "I'm coming to get you!" she yelled back.

Mandy finished the dishes, then walked to the living room. She looked under the sofa and behind the door--Abby's favorite hiding places. Then she heard a noise upstairs.

"Aha!" called Mandy. "I'm going to find you!"

Mandy tiptoed up the steps, then let out a small scream when she saw Abby. The toddler was sitting on the floor of her mother's room, holding an empty medicine bottle in her hand.

"All gone," said Abby with a smile.

In a flash, Mandy had Abby in her arms and the empty medicine bottle in her hand. She ran to the phone and called the poison control center. The woman ...

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