Colorado 8-year-old dies after pharmacy
Colorado 8-year-old dies after pharmacy allegedly gives him 1,000 times his usual medication dosage for sensory processing disorder Jake Steinbrecher, an 8-year-old boy from Loveland, Colorado, died after a Good Day pharmacist allegedly gave him 1,000 times his usual dosage of his medication. An 8-year-old boy in Colorado died this month after a local pharmacy made a massive error in his medication dosage. Jake Steinbrecher overdosed on his usual medication of Clonidine used to treat his sensory processing disorder — a drug his parents didn't want him to take to begin with. Clonidine is often used to treat high blood pressure as well as ADHD symptoms. "Drugging our child definitely wasn't something we wanted to do," his mother Caroline Steinbrecher told the Daily News. Jake Steinbrecher in the hospital. "The Clonidine was a compromise I could live with, because it was a non-addictive drug," she added. Steinbrecher said that ...