A 16-year old student at Prairie Grove High School was arrested Monday after police say she distributed prescription pills to several classmates, including one who later had to be hospitalized.
According to a report from Prairie Grove police, a 15-year-old at the school spent 18 hours in a drug-induced coma after passing out in a classroom Friday.
A substitute teacher told police the boy came to class quieter than usual, put his head down halfway through the class and was later unable to get up to leave at the end of the period, the report said. A school nurse told investigators the student was unable to say his own name.
After being released from intensive care at Washington Regional Medical Center, the student told police he took two 150 milligram pills of the antidepressant Amitriptyline, the report said.
After interviewing the boy and several other students, police arrested a 16-year-old classmate at the school.
The report says the suspect told police she took between 15 and 20 pills of Amitriptyline and Tramadol from her mother's home because she wanted to fit in.
A Prairie Grove police spokesman said the girl was charged Monday as a minor with possession of a controlled substance with an enhancement that could increase penalties because the distribution was on school grounds.