Fifteen primary school students in Mexico have been treated after apparently taking part in an online “challenge” in which groups of students take tranquilizers to see who can stay awake the longest.
The incident occurred on Monday in the north-central city of Guanajuato. It came just days after health authorities issued a national alert about the insanity. It was the fourth school in Mexico to suffer this type of incident in the last year.
The mayor of Guanajuato, Alejandro Navarro, said that the students were cared for at school and urged parents to supervise the use of social networks by their children.
“As a general rule, girls and boys should not have accounts on social networks, it’s bad to start with,” Navarro wrote on his Facebook account.
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15 fifth and sixth grade students in Mexico were treated for a viral social media drug “challenge” in which they take tranquilizers to determine who can stay awake the longest.
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There was no immediate word on the condition of the students, believed to be fifth and sixth graders, or where they got the tranquilizers.
The Department of Health issued an alert on January 25 about the dangers of clonazepam, a tranquilizer, and called on the public to report any store that sells it without a prescription.
That alert came a week after eight students at a Mexico City high school were treated after taking a “controlled drug.” Some were hospitalized. Just a few days earlier, three students from another high school near the northern city of Monterrey were treated for taking doses of clonazepam.
The department warned of the social media challenge, dubbed “last to fall asleep wins,” calling it dangerous.
