TOLEDO, Ohio — The father of the child who overdosed on methadone on Jan. 26 was indicted Monday.
Police said 29-year-old Marques Floyd was arrested at a hotel in Maumee on Jan. 31 and was charged with child endangering and obstructing justice.
The 2-year-old boy is recovering after overdosing on an unknown quantity of methadone, an FDA-approved medication, inside a Toledo home.
According to Toledo police, the boy was taken to Toledo Hospital's emergency room by Floyd just before 10 p.m. The child was unresponsive, according to the police report.
Floyd said the boy accidentally ingested methadone while at a home in the 1900 block of Chase Street.
Hospital staff gave the boy three doses of Narcan to reverse the opioid overdose.
"It's not a miracle drug," Pvt. Sterling Rahe with Toledo Fire and Rescue said. "Not everybody comes back from an opioid overdose."
Toledo fire officials told WTOL 11 an average 2-year-old who weighs about 26 pounds would be given a dose of 1.2 milligrams of Narcan.
But Toledo firefighters are only allowed to administer a maximum of two milligrams in total without special consent, which is not even a full second dose. It shows how the three doses the boy received is quite serious.
"In this case, it sounds like it worked very well for the hospital staff and thankfully this youngster is doing better," Rahe said.
Rahe said this was one of the fortunate cases, while many others don't turn out so well. He stressed how much the immediacy of a situation like this is imperative, especially for young children.
"How much did they take? What was the route of ingestion? What was the exposure?" Rahe said. "There's a lot of unknowns so you don't know how quickly that's going to affect the respiratory centers of the brain for that child."
Police records said the boy was in stable condition as of Jan. 27 as he recovered in the pediatric intensive care unit.
But Rahe said the incident serves as a reminder for parents to keep those drugs — both legal and otherwise — out of sight and out of reach.
"Nothing's ever fool-proof but if you can do everything, exhaust every measure to keep them away from your children or other children, that's the key," he said.
No charges have been filed in the case. Toledo police detectives and Lucas County Children Services are working on an investigation
Briana Smith has also been indicted for Obstructing Official Business. .
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