RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A student at a Southern California highschool was revived Thursday after she stopped respiratory after apparently taking a pill laced with fentanyl, authorities said.
Authorities were called to Arlington High School in Riverside after the 15-year-old girl began having a medical emergency, Riverside police said in an announcement.
“The coed stopped respiratory and the college resource officer, assistant principal and other staff quickly initiated life-saving measures,” including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the statement said.
“Their efforts revived the scholar. She began respiratory and her pulse returned,” police said.
Emergency responders also gave the girl Narcan, which is utilized in emergencies to reverse opioid overdoses.
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The girl was taken to a hospital and made a full recovery, police spokesman Ryan Railsback said.
An investigation determined that the scholar took a suspected counterfeit oxycodone tablet containing fentanyl that she bought through a social media site and had delivered to her home, police said.
Detectives later arrested two people suspected of selling the pill to the scholar.
“We’re grateful that the scholar is protected. That is the primary known case of fentanyl affecting a student inside RUSD and we would really like it to be the last,” said Tim Walker, deputy superintendent of the Riverside Unified School District.
Fentanyl is an artificial opioid 80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine and a small amount can kill.
In September a 15-year-old girl died from an overdose after she was present in a restroom at a Hollywood highschool. Police said the girl and a classmate had taken a fentanyl-laced drug they believed was the prescription painkiller Percocet.
Last month, a 17-year-old boy at the identical school was given Narcan and hospitalized for a possible drug overdose.
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