Drug epidemic takes toll on children

3 charged with endangering toddler in drug-filled hotel room
The parents of a 3-year-old boy and another woman have been charged with endangering the child while using drugs in a Pennsylvania hotel room.
South Abington Township police went to the Nichols Village hotel on Saturday after a parent reported concerns that 20-year-old Kayla Thurston was using drugs there.
Police say they found Thurston with a couple, 20-year-old Ariel Burke and 22-year-old David Button in the room using marijuana, and possessing methamphetamine and a generic form of Suboxone, a drug used to treat heroin addicts that is sometimes abused itself.
Police say Burke and Button's son was running around unsupervised. He's been placed with a responsible family member.
All three have been arraigned on drug possession and the endangerment charge.
Police: Child, 4, called 911 after caregiver overdose
Authorities say a 4-year-old girl called 911 for help when her caregiver overdosed in front of her earlier this month at a western Pennsylvania home.
Officials in Beaver County said the woman overdosed on heroin shortly after 11:30 p.m. on April 15 in Ambridge while caring for the child.
Officials said the girl called 911 when she couldn't wake the woman and met officers when they arrived at the home, where the woman was found unconscious.
Authorities allege in a criminal complaint that drugs and drug paraphernalia, including a hypodermic needle, were within reach of the child.
County dispatchers told police that there had been several previous calls to the home for overdoses. Ambridge police said the 32-year-old woman was charged with child endangerment.