r/AskReddit • u/Haunted_Neko • 2d ago

What was your high school controversy?

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u/BlueDragon1089 2d ago

Three kids in my high school English class were at a party and a girl from a nearby school overdosed at a party they were all at. They were scared of getting in trouble doing drugs so they waited until the morning and dropped her dead body off at the ER and ran. One of them went to juvenile jail for providing the drugs to her

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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat 2d ago

I used to work in a hospital and these things actually happened more times than I can count. Usually in the dead of night, though.

Young person, definite OD, no ID, and...all you can do is haul them inside and proceed as best you can. :(

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u/Hovie1 2d ago

Situations like this have led to laws being passed that absolve the people calling for help from liability.

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u/LordSloth666 2d ago

It’s called the “Good Samaritan” Law. When I was still in active addiction I was hanging out at my dealers house and a girl overdosed. There was a house full of people and they all scattered like roaches (including the guy who was having sex with her during said o.d.). Only my girlfriend (Now wife of 5 years) and I stayed. We took turns doing chest compressions and called 911. I did go to jail for a previous charge but only for a week. However the detective that gave me the Good Samaritan paperwork definitely was implying it would only work if I snitched (I didn’t) but i am pretty sure it must have worked because I received no further charges.

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 2d ago

Good for you and your now Wife for doing the right thing.

It's called the same thing in Canada.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/opioids/about-good-samaritan-drug-overdose-act.html

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u/borsalamino 2d ago

'the same thing' sounds like a strange name for a law, but I'm no judge

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u/DJFisticuffs 1d ago

I went to college in Philly and all the university police departments in the city, as well as all of the university affiliated hospitals with emergency rooms, had Good Samaritan policies.