To provide service to the citizens and health care providers of Texas. To provide public and professional education to both prevent poisonings and provide information about the best treatment to poisoning victims. To undertake research which allows us to minimize poisonings and their consequences. The South Texas Poison Center is available 24 hours a day to provide assessment, referral, and treatment recommendations to all people in South Texas. The Poison Center has poison information specialists available to provide assistance and answer your questions in English, Spanish, and with TDD for the hearing impaired.
Interpreters are available for other languages.
The poison information specialists are skilled in assisting both the general public and health professionals . The Texas Poison Center Network and the individual centers are funded and supported by the Texas Department of Health and Advisory Commission on State Emergency Communications.