One of my favourite drug offences

On September 23rd 2003, 15-yr-old Brandon Kivi, a pupil at Caney Creek High School, Texas, was arrested and questioned by the police after his school reported him for lending his girlfriend Andrea Ferguson his asthma inhaler when she was having an attack.
Although both pupils use the same type of Albuterol inhaler, the school decided this constituted supplying drugs and therefore a violation of its zero-tolerance anti-drug policy. Police arrested Kivi at school the next day, and held him for 2 1/2 hours before allowing him to call his mother to explain why he hadn't arrived home.
No charges were brought, but the school still expelled Kivi, who, along with his girlfriend, will be home educated from now on.

In some schools, pupils are not allowed to take medication at all in case they share it with other pupils. For example, penecilin can be pretty much life-savnig for some people, but the schools forbid it.

To be honest, it's bad enough that asthmatics have to PAY for their medication (as it's something they need to function normally, i believe it should be free, as if they pay for it, it's no better than a tax). The fact that many children cannot take their medication to school and/or share it with very unwell pupils is silly. That and pain killers. So what if a few people took too many? A couple of idiots should't ruin it for everyone...

--Matt

If a kid's going to overdose on painkillers at school, they're going to take their own, not get them from a friend, and even the dimmest-witted of school nurses/receptionsists is going to notice the same kid coming back sixteen times asking for two aspirin.

What I find insane is the fact that if I'm doing a first aid duty and I stick a plaster on someone and they then have an allergic reaction to it then I can be charged with asult.

Ashmatics need to pay for their medication... however heorin junkies can get Morphine on the NHS. The idea is that they are not commiting crime to get their next hit, so can lead normal lives.

Any comments?