4 Teens Trying to Get High Get Sick Instead
Four Aliso Viejo middle school students were treated for nausea Wednesday after they took an assortment of over-the-counter medications in an attempt to get high, officials said.
The Don Juan Avila Middle School students -- a 13-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl and two 14-year-old girls -- were not identified because they are minors.
According to Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, the students swallowed ibuprofen, Aleve, Tylenol and an allergy medication.
The four, who were in the same classroom, turned pale shortly after lunch and felt nauseous, officials said. One had a rapid heartbeat.
Officials at the school, in the 26000 block of Wood Canyon Drive, called paramedics, who treated the students at the scene and released them to their parents, Amormino said.
“It doesn’t produce any type of a high,” Amormino said. “I don’t think they’ll do it again.”
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