Prescription Drug Use in Our Schools

I am involved in a class where we get to work in the Junior High Schools, and today was our first tour of one of the schools. The class got to check the school out, and then we were supposed to observe the hallways just to see kids in their "natural environment". I got to see them interact, joke with each other, flirt, and talk about all of the hip things people do. Well, apparently the new cool thing to do is Oxycotin. Yep, that's right, prescription pain-killers. I overheard a group of girls talking about a boy that had taken FIVE pills at school. FIVE! Normally after a surgery the normal amount taken is two about every eight hours. This child is very lucky to still be alive. According to various sources (WebMD and drugfree.com) an overdose of these pills can cause resperatory depression (aka you stop breathing right). I have no idea why kids this young are doing this, and if the school even knows. I told the vice principal and even looked at a yearbook to try to find the girl that had been talking, but unfortunately I couldn't identify her. They're going to watch the site for a group of girls with the description I gave in the location so they can try to get the situation dealt with. I'll be working in the counselling office for the rest of the semester, so I hope I can do something to help. Get a drug-free program in there as an assembly or something. Or at least show kids videos like this one.