NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - A preliminary state report says all of the fatal teenage overdoses in Virginia during a four-year period could have been prevented.
The state Child Fatality Review Team examined overdose deaths of 13- through 17-year-olds from 2009 through 2013.
The team’s coordinator, Emily G. Womble, tells The Daily Press (https://bit.ly/1E7cDtm) that the team saw things in all 26 cases indicating action for intervention and prevention.
The report says three-quarters of the deaths were attributed to prescription drug abuse.
Womble says a full report examining all overdose deaths from birth to age 17 won’t be complete until the spring of 2016.
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Information from: Daily Press, https://www.dailypress.com/
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