History of misuse or addiction: Intentionally misusing prescription drugs or using illicit drugs can put you at risk of a drug overdose, particularly if it happens often or if you become addicted. Accidently taking too much or taking your doses sooner than directed can easily lead to an overdose of a drug that is otherwise safe for you. Not knowing or following dosage instructions: Even adults can overdose on medication if they don’t follow the instructions.

It’s easy for children to get into and accidently overdose on drugs that aren’t properly sealed and stored away from them.

Improper storage of drugs: Improperly stored drugs can be easy targets for small children, who are curious and tend to put things in their mouth. (Reported in Clifton Fadiman, ed.Several factors can increase the risk of a drug overdose. He would forget the names of things, and have to refer to them in a circumlocutory way, saying, for instance, 'the implement that cultivates the soil' for plow.' He used to refer to it as his 'naughty memory' when it let him down.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'In Emerson's later years his memory began increasingly to fail.(Banesh Hoffman, 'My Friend, Albert Einstein.' Reader's Digest, January 1968) Then, joining the children as they went from door to door, he accompanied their singing of 'Silent Night' on his violin.' Einstein listened, then said, 'Wait a moment.' He put on his scarf and overcoat and took his violin from its case. Having finished, they knocked on his door and explained they were collecting money to buy Christmas presents. In his first year in Princeton, on Christmas Eve, so the story goes, some children sang carols outside his house. It is illustrated by my favorite anecdote about him. Albert Einstein: 'There was something elusively whimsical about Einstein.

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