Child unresponsive after suspected pill overdose in Georgia playhouse
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A six-year-old child was airlifted to an Atlanta hospital Saturday after being found unresponsive inside a playhouse in Carroll County, in northwestern Georgia.
Authorities suspect the child may have taken an unknown quantity of pills, including sleeping and anti-anxiety medication, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
"After finding the medication they [children] returned to the playhouse [in the child's yard] and began taking the capsules apart and pouring out the ingredients," Carroll County sheriff's captain Jeff Richards said.
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"At some point the victim swallowed some of the medication and then became sleepy at which time the friends reported the events to the child's grandmother where [they] had been staying."
The child, whose parents were not home at the time of the incident, was airlifted to an Atlanta hospital.