A dozen students overdosed Thursday morning at a Los Angeles middle school, authorities said.
The victims, aged between 12 and 15, were “found to be in mild-to-moderate distress” at around 10:30 a.m. when nearly 50 firefighters responded to the Van Nuys Middle School.
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Three of them were treated at the scene and released while seven others needed special treatment at local hospitals.
Officials revealed that the incident was not fentanyl-related adding that “specifics of the medical complaints and possible substance(s) will be completed by hospital personnel.”
“This is not any sort of fentanyl-affiliated overdose. We want to make sure everybody knows that,” the Los Angeles Fire Department added in a news release.
