Family’s heartbreak as ‘happy and bubbly’ girl, 12, dies from ‘overdose’ after she put grandma’s used painkiller patch on her leg


My Comment:  This is so tragic, warn your family members about the dangers of this.  Praying for the family.

(Daily Mail) An ‘always happy and bubbly’ Missouri girl has died after she pulled one of her grandmother’s powerful painkiller patches out of the trash and put it on her leg.

Destiny Spitler, 12, was found lifeless in her bed in Clinton on Saturday morning and investigators called to the scene discovered a Fentanyl patch on her thigh.

The girl’s grandmother, Diana Spitler, uses the medication, which is up to 100 times stronger than morphine and 40 times stronger than heroin, to manage her back pain but instead of flushing the used patch down the toilet, as instructed, she put it in the bin.

Stomach ache: Investigators are reportedly looking into reports that Destiny, pictured, had put the patch on her abdomen on Friday night after complaining of a stomach ache

Tragic: Destiny Spitler, 12, was found lifeless in her bed in Clinton, Missouri, on Saturday morning and investigators called to the scene discovered a Fentanyl patch on her thigh

A police report said officers were called to the home on East Lincoln Street, which Destiny shared with her grandmother, her mother Cathleen Perron and her brothers and sisters, on a report of a person not breathing. When they arrived they performed CPR on young Destiny until an ambulance rushed her to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.

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