A 14-year-old Francis Scott Key High student has been placed on community detention for 30 days for sharing an anti-depressant prescription drug with five other students at school last week, authorities said.
The students, who were not named because of privacy laws, all sought medical treatment for an adverse reaction to a generic form of Paxil, authorities said.
One student was admitted overnight to Carroll County General Hospital on Tuesday, hospital officials said.
The students are OK and have been referred to juvenile authorities for further action, state police said.
On Friday, the teen accused of bringing the drug to school was in juvenile court in Westminster to face charges of distributing a prescription drug and disrupting school activities.
He was placed on community detention in the custody of his mother for at least 30 days, prosecutor Brian Bowersox said.
Community detention means he must wear an electronic ankle bracelet and may not leave home without obtaining permission from juvenile authorities monitoring his case.
If he should violate community detention, he would be picked up and taken to the Charles C. Hickey School, a Baltimore County juvenile detention facility, and confined there until his adjudication hearing, the juvenile-court equivalent of a trial, Bowersox said.
The remaining students could face charges of possessing a prescription drug, Bowersox said.
State police or juvenile authorities could bring those charges, or they could be dealt with less formally by Department of Juvenile Justice counselors, Bowersox said.
The students have been suspended and could face further disciplinary action, school officials said.
