A Missouri woman is facing charge after allegedly giving her 14-year-old daughter fentanyl for a toothache.
According to Overland Police, Jacquelyn Powers provided the child with a pill from her drawer after the teen complained of a toothache, Fox 2 reported. Powers believed the pill was oxycodone from a previous surgery, but an autopsy revealed fentanyl, not oxycodone, was indicated in the death.
Powers admitted to trading her own prescribed oxycodone with pills her mother alelgedly bought on the street, in an effort to "protect" her mother from dangerous medications. She now faces a first-degree child endangerment charge.
"This is tragic, this shouldn't happen," Overland Police Capt. Jim Morgan said.
Aaron Laxton, executive director of the Assisted Recovery Centers of America, warned, "We warn folks not to trust the street-pressed pills," said Aaron Laxton, executive director of the Assisted Recovery Centers of America. "Because you simply don't know what's in them."
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