Although it’s normal to hear concerns over what a child may receive when they go trick-or-treating, misinformation this year has been particularly persistent.
Forget horror movies, haunted houses or decorations that seem a little too realistic. For many, paranoia around drug-laced candy can make trick-or-treating the ultimate scare.
Although the agency didn’t mention Halloween specifically, people remain alarmed this holiday following the DEA’s warning.Best said that in the decades he’s spent researching this topic, he’s never once found “any evidence that any child has ever been killed, or seriously hurt, by a treat found in the course of trick-or-treating.”
Dr. Ryan Marino, medical toxicologist, emergency physician and addiction medicine specialist at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, also points to the upcoming midterm elections. The drug overdose crisis, she explained, has claimed more than 1 million lives in two decades, and overdose deaths only continue to increase. Nearly 92,000 people died because of a drug overdose in 2020, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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