A Pittsburgh mom is facing charges after police said her 4-year-old son ingested fentanyl.

According to court paperwork, detectives were called to UPMC Children's Hospital on Monday after a 4-year-old boy was admitted into the ICU to be treated for fentanyl ingestion. Police said his mom, Taneara Green, had found the boy unresponsive at their home on Smithton Avenue in Pittsburgh's Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood around 11:30 a.m.

While Green was getting her blood drawn, police said she muttered that it was going to come back "hot." Detectives said Green told them that she took fentanyl pills almost every morning. She said that she paid $60 per pill and that she'd never let her son take one because of how expensive they were, police said.

Green also told police that the day before, the

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