A 17-year-old student at Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood was hospitalized Friday due to a possible drug overdose.
Los Angeles Police Department officers and Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics were called to the school about 2 p.m. on reports of a medical emergency and found the boy suffering from symptoms indicative of a drug overdose, according to LAPD Officer Drake Madison
The students was given a dose of Narcan for his symptoms and was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, Madison said. It was not immediately known what substance the student ingested.
Friday’s incident marks the second time a student at Helen Bernstein High School suffered a dug overdose in a just over a month. A 15-year-old female student was found dead in a bathroom on campus after overdosing on fentanyl on Sept. 13.
Cade Kitchen, a 17-year-old student at El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, died of fentanyl poisoning Oct. 5. The circumstances surrounding Kitchen’s death were not released.