Troy Student Arrested for Handing Out Oxycontin
Joliet police say the 14-year-old girl told classmates that the drug was aspirin.
Oxycodone is the pharmaceutical name for prescription painkiller Oxycontin.
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A 14-year-old Troy Middle School student who handed out Oxycontin pills to two classmates under the guise that they were aspirin was arrested Tuesday by Joliet police.
Police were called to the 5800 Theodore St. school at about 1:20 p.m. when a student alerted a counselor that the girl gave her the pill and then later told her it was a prescription painkiller, Joliet police told the Joliet Herald News.
Another student was also given a pill but threw it away, police said.
The suspect was arrested on a charge of drug possession and taken to the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center, the story said.
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Troy Middle School
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River Valley Juvenile Detention Center
3200 McDonough St, Joliet, IL
forget me
12:14 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Maybe she wanted to grow up to be a pharmacist
bob sagott
5:20 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
fbi go2 tht school and was glad to hear it was drugs id rather my kids grow up with tht instead of guns then they at least have a choice
FP
8:42 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
14 years old, middle school, not high school, are you kidding me!!!!!!! It terrifies me that my children are growing up in this world :-( ans as much as I try to make them aware of things that go on in schools and with kids and teach them about the harms of drugs, alcohol, bullying and "stranger danger" & try to help them to know who to trust. I shower my kids with love, I'm a stay at home mom, so I'm always there for them, I let them know that I won't judge them no matter what they come to me with & still fear they may take the wrong route....sad, sad, sad world we've created.
bob sagott
5:21 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
FP I
John Roberts
11:53 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Here is some interesting info:...The State of Kentucky sued the makers of OxyContin for law enforcement,swat teams,raids,break ins...all OxyContin related crimes and the cost of the courts,housing inmates...and won they got reimbursement for all of it.in 2007...Now they have them back in court for OxyCodone related crimes because the makers said the stuff was less addictive...Kentucky disagrees....These things are very addictive..if you took them away though like OxyContin users there is always Suboxin and Methadone.loljust one big circle...and when thoes get banned these users are more likely to use heroin because that's what these are is synthetic heroin and that's why they are so popular...this also has a reverse effect...how many law suits before people get scared to make pain pills?..lol..and round and round we go...
jess smith
3:23 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
This isn't even the real information. I go to the school this happened at (Troy Middle School) and this is incorrect. So uh, please so commenting about how you're "scared your kids are growing up in this world". Wow.
GlockG22Shoots40s
3:45 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Well fill us in on the skinny there Jess... what's the story???? As far as parents being fearful for their children... society today is nothing like when I grew up... children used to be taught about respecting others... not so much anymore.
Anonymous
4:35 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
I go to Troy Middle School and yes, those kids made a mistake and were nit doing the right thing but it could have been worse. Really... . And the story is almost exactly what they had up there. Today two students got expelled from school for dealing the drugs. Students at Troy know better but decided to act otherwise.