HCM City students take cough medicine to get high
Many students in HCM City have been taking Recotus cough medicine over the past two years as a recreational drug. Some kids just took it out of curiosity and others because it gave them symptoms that were similar to illness so they could skip school.
Recently, dozens of girl students from Tang Bat Ho Secondary School in District 4 have taken this kind of medicine. A number of parents said that someone came to the school to force their children use the medicine, if they refused to do this, they would be beaten.
Speaking with a DTiNews reporter, Le Ngoc Hai, Headmaster of the school, admitted the problem, disclosing that on September 30 many parents and students informed the school that the medicine was being used by students.
After that, the teachers found seven students from Class 7A1 to have used the medicine and they confiscated 20 tablets at that time.. Among the users are four girl students who take it frequently. They admitted distributing the medicine to their friends. These girls get mostly medium study results, except for one girl who is a good student.
Hai said some students are not aware of the medicine’s bad effects and just use it out of curiosity and because it made them feel relaxed.
The students said their usual dose was from one to four tablets, taken outside or at school.
After the inspection, the school indentified the person who come to the school to force the students to take the medicine, Hai said, adding that it is a former girl student who left the school.
The headmaster said it is a headache, but the school cannot control students outside the school. The school is cooperating with local authorities to deal with the situation.
According to him, most of the medicine users face family problems such as parental divorce. Up to half out of the total number of 1,300 students suffer from family difficulties.
Meanwhile, Recotus is sold popularly at drugstores so it's quite difficult to control student use.
VietnamNet reported that, last year, 20 students of a secondary school in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, took the medicine in class. Four of them were hospitalized in a state of anxiety, drowsiness and were also suffering from trembling limbs.
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