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"The intentional exposures for self harm and self medicating. We’re starting to see a bump in that 13 to 19 age group, and that has us all a bit concerned."

"If they were to take a taste of it accidentally, not a problem, could be a little bit irritating, but not a real big issue.

They can cause a lot of different problems. One of the things we see with that is significant damage to the liver, a lot of times."

"We had an increase in cleaning product exposures, and the difference was it wasn’t the little child getting into it at home, it was the adults at home perhaps misusing or overusing cleaning products."

(A peacock mantis shrimp. Photo by Jens Petersen/Wikimedia)In this week's Science Friday news roundup, Ed Yong, science writer for The Atlantic, talks…