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Article: TEENS OVERDOSE ON MUSCLE RELAXER.(NEWS)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- March 3, 1997
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Byline: Associated Press
WOBURN, Mass. -- Hundreds of people gathered at a local church to pray for 14 teen-agers who overdosed on muscle relaxants at a weekend community dance and started ''dropping like flies.''
Two of the eight children still hospitalized Sunday night were in critical condition, officials said. At one point, 12 of the teens had been in critical condition, several on respirators.
The middle school students had taken as many as 35 pills each of the drug Baclofen, which often is used to treat cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis.
Parents and students said a girl who fell ill at the dance brought the small white ...