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Westside High students may have taken medication not prescribed to them

A Bibb County Schools spokeswoman says one of the students left campus and got in a wreck about a mile away from the school

MACON, Ga. — At least two Westside High School students were hospitalized after swallowing a substance they got from another student.

That's according to Bibb County School District spokeswoman Stephanie Hartley.

She says around noon Thursday, a Westside High teacher noticed several students behaving oddly.

Their parents were notified, and one parent took their child to a hospital for evaluation.

A second student left campus and got in a car wreck on Ivey Drive -- about a mile from school. That student was also checked out at a hospital.

Hartley says it's not clear what the students took, or whether it happened on or off-campus, but one of the teens admitted getting the substance from another student.

Hartley says the school is still looking into the incident and says parents should talk to their kids about the dangers of taking medications that were not prescribed to them.

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