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Article: Rx for trouble: abusing legal drugs can destroy lives.(YOUR CHOICES)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
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- January 1, 2006
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On a spring afternoon last year, several students at a private high school in New York became ill. They vomited, and some passed out at their desks. What first looked like a case of bad cafeteria food turned out to be a much more serious problem--drug overdoses.
The teens had taken Xanax, a powerful prescription medicine used to treat anxiety; they bought it from fellow students. And it didn't take much to get them sick. "In a couple of the cases, only one pill was taken," says Inspector Daniel Jackson of the White Plains police force.
The teenagers recovered, but those who sold the pills and some who took the drugs were arrested and charged. The ...