Life just two years to have ingested methadone. It 'happened last night in Biella, a Zumaglia, a village of a thousand inhabitants in the hills. The victim is a girl, the daughter of a man drug addict in the care Sert. For this reason there was methadone in the home.

The child was left alone at home by their parents - now reported to drop - and entrusted to the two sisters of 10 and 12 years. However, that would not have noticed what she was doing the small, nor knew that it was a substance that should not be touched. It seems that the child has opened a cupboard, found within the vial.

At the time of the mother was out for work and the father went out for some committees. The alarm was given by a neighbor to which the two girls turned seeing that his sister was ill. But when the girl came to the hospital emergency room in Biella, the situation was already very serious.

Doctors have now realized that it was poisoning, but have not had the opportunity to intervene to save his life. The bambima died about an hour after his arrival at the emergency room. The father has attained a few minutes before his death, found by staff in the team's mobile Biella investigating the affair. A blood sample was sent to the poison center in Pavia apprehended, while they are ongoing investigations autopsy to know exactly the nature of the substance ingested.

This is not the first victim of small methadone. In several cases in recent years, the victims are all children of drug addicts treated by Sert who deliver them the need for methadone detoxification. In October 2008 had died in Viterbo, a child of 14 months who had accidentally ingested the same substance used to his father. On that matter was also addressed Andrea Muccioli, coordinator of the community of San Patrignano recovery. "Enough with these tragedies," he said, pointing the finger at the lightness of some institutions in delivering methadone in the hands of people often unable to look after themselves let alone to children and families. Again in 2008 similar tragedies had occurred in Campobasso and Palermo.

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