Student handed out potent, and potentially fatal prescription drugs

An unidentified female student is accused of giving the students high doses of Zoloft, Thorazine, Seroquel, and Trilepital.



KRQE News 13 has learned the drugs were prescribed to the girl and brought to school from home. Pharmacists say those drugs in the potent quantities involved could do serious damage to an average person.

First, how in the world is a middle schooler diagnosed as being so fucked up that they need four, count them - four, powerful medications? An anti-depressant (Zoloft), TWO anti-psychotics (Thorazine and Seroquel) plus anti-seizure medication (Trileptal). Seroquel is a 2nd generation anti-psychotic. We don't even know why or how it actually works. I also can't find any reference that it would be used concurrent with a first generation anti-psychotic like Thorazine. Most references seem to indicate that it is used instead of older drugs. The first stop here is the kid's doctor to find out just what the hell he's up to. Second, this kid who is so mentally defunct that she needs to be drugged to the gills in order to function is nevertheless capable of normal scholastic pursuits? If these prescriptions are correct then she's depressed, seriously psychotic and seizure prone. Why is she in a regular school when she so obviously needs more attention than that?

Third, if this girl isn't truthfully a fubar mess naturally then she certainly is from all of this medication. Why does she have direct access to all of her drugs? She's a young teen apparently diagnosed with clinical depression. She should not have access to four extremely powerful drugs, any of which can be fatal if overdosed and three of which alter moods in one fashion or another.

Rio RanchoÂ’s Department of Public Safety isnÂ’t taking the situation lightly, recommending the girl responsible be charged with felony possession of a controlled substance on campus, and distribution.

That's not addressing the problem at all. Does this girl need attention? Yes, desperately. Is she a felon? Of course not. Take a depressed young teen, drug them up to high heaven, hand them some bottles. Just what do you think is going to happen? No, the problems that need to be addressed here might end with the student but they certainly don't start with her.

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