A TELEPHONE service has been launched by the National Poisons Information Centre to help people, particularly parents, deal with accidents involving poisons.

THE National Poisons Information Centre (NPIC) is concerned at the surge in calls involving small children drinking alcohol hand gels or getting the substance in their eyes.

SIX inquiries about the ingestion of ecstasy by babies and toddlers have been made to the National Poisons Information Centre (NPIC).

Less people are overdosing on paracetamol since the introduction of a ban on 24 packs in supermarkets.