Child ingests opioid pill in Greene
A child was administered naloxone last month after he ingested a Buprenorphine pill his mother had left on her bed when she briefly left the room in their Greene County home, state police said.
The boy, whose age was not released, took the opioid medication, which is used to treat opioid addiction, that Dawna Jo Evans had put on the bed in her Monongahela Township home Aug. 15, police said.
When Evans returned, she could not locate the pill and called emergency responders. The boy was taken by ambulance to WHS-Greene hospital near Waynesburg, where nurses found him to be lethargic with constricted pupils.
State police obtained a search warrant on the boy’s medical records Wednesday and found he had tested positive for the opioid and was administered naloxone at the hospital.
Evans, 24, of 18 Hilltop Trailer Park, was charged Friday with child endangerment and recklessly endangering another person.