Trying to impress an older girl, a 13-year-old Castle Rock Middle School student gave her three of his father’s Vicodin pills on the school bus Monday, police said.
The incident follows a Feb. 8 case in which eight Castle View High School students were taken to a local hospital after taking Oxycodone brought to school by one of the students, who could be charged with distributing a controlled substance.
A seventh-grader gave the pills to a 15-year-old sophomore who rides the same bus but attends Castle View High School, police said.
The 10th-grade girl then gave one of the pills to a 14-year-old eighth-grader, who still had the pill when authorities learned of the drugs on campus.
Eventually a student told school officials who called police. All of the students face expulsion.
Because those involved in the cases are juveniles, school officials, police and prosecutors have not been willing to discuss their punishment.”This is another situation where adults and parents really need to have conversations with kids about the dangers of this kind of behavior,” school district spokeswoman Whei Wong told 9News. “It’s dangerous and potentially fatal and we as adults need to stop students’ access to prescription meds.”
