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Oklahoma child‑death review board urges safe‑storage, prenatal sleep education, seat‑belt law change and stronger THC packaging
Summary
The Child Death Review Board presented cohort‑year data showing many preventable child deaths and recommended four actions: consider child access prevention (safe‑storage) laws, start safe‑sleep education during prenatal care, restore/strengthen child passenger safety laws, and require clearer medical marijuana packaging to warn caregivers; commissioners praised new data capacity.
The Child Death Review Board told the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth that much of the child mortality it reviewed is preventable and recommended a set of policy and practice changes to reduce deaths.
Liz Cop, program manager for the Child Death Review Board, said the board’s new cohort‑year reporting shows a troubling pattern: firearm deaths and unsafe sleep environments are major contributors to child fatalities, and near‑death cases from THC‑edible ingestion have surged. Cop reported that in the cohort year reviewed, 46 deaths involved firearms — including 17 suicides, of which 12 involved unsecured firearms — and that many children in unintentional shootings accessed unsecured weapons. The board also…
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