'I couldn't move my arm or my fingers': 5-year-old trick-or-treater tests positive for meth

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Source: Washington Post

‘I couldn’t move my arm or my fingers’: 5-year-old trick-or-treater tests positive for meth

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. October 30 at 2:08 PM

The appointed time for trick-or-treating in Galion, Ohio, is from 2 to 4 p.m. on the last Sunday of October — during daylight hours that make it easier for parents and police to keep costumed kids safe.

This year, rain fell during that two-hour window in the northern Ohio city. Afterward, as Braylen Carwell peeled off his costume and prepared to dive into his haul, he thought his sudden shaking was related to the cold, wet weather.

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The child’s father rushed him to a hospital. By then, “the left side of his face was just droopy, and then he fell and then he couldn’t move his left arm,” his mother, Julia Pence, told WSYX, an ABC affiliate. “And he didn’t know where he was, he didn’t know what he was doing.”

Braylen’s parents thought it was a seizure.

But a urine test revealed the real cause: methamphetamine.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/10/30/i-couldnt-move-my-arm-or-my-fingers-year-old-trick-or-treater-tests-positive-meth/