{"id":9480,"date":"2018-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/us-boy-hospitalised-after-eating-halloween-candy-laced-with-meth\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"us-boy-hospitalised-after-eating-halloween-candy-laced-with-meth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/us-boy-hospitalised-after-eating-halloween-candy-laced-with-meth\/","title":{"rendered":"US Boy Hospitalised After Eating Halloween Candy Laced With Meth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A five-year-old boy in Ohio has tested positive for methamphetamine after he was hospitalised when he ate candy collected while trick-or-treating.<\/h3>\n<p>The boy\u2019s parents told police he had a seizure after eating a couple of pieces of candy and playing with some fake plastic teeth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe encourage parents to thoroughly check any candy your children may have received before they eat it,\u201d local police told residents in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, please check any non-candy items such as rings, bracelets, necklaces or fake teeth. If you suspect that anything has been tampered with, please contact our department by phone so that an officer can stop and collect the items.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The parents told hospital staff the meth must have come from a piece of trick-or-treat candy the boy had been eating. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5T4zCMRVTZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/5T4zCMRVTZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; USA TODAY (@USATODAY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USATODAY\/status\/1057316219815149574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A five-year-old boy in Ohio has tested positive for methamphetamine after he was hospitalised when he ate candy collected while trick-or-treating. The boy\u2019s parents told police he had a seizure after eating a couple of pieces of candy and playing with some fake plastic teeth. \u201cWe encourage parents to thoroughly check any candy your children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-9480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US Boy Hospitalised After Eating Halloween Candy Laced With Meth - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/us-boy-hospitalised-after-eating-halloween-candy-laced-with-meth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Boy Hospitalised After Eating Halloween Candy Laced With Meth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A five-year-old boy in Ohio has tested positive for methamphetamine after he was hospitalised when he ate candy collected while trick-or-treating. 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