IdoNotes (and sleep)

by Tom Duff at 06:59:52 PM on Sunday, October 12th, 2003

No one seemingly wants to take responsibility for doing the "right" thing, just the "legal" thing... sigh...

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Teenager In Trouble In Inhaler Incident
Wed Oct 8, 6:55 PM ET

A teenager was disciplined for sharing medication used to treat asthma, but he said it saved
his girlfriend's life, News2Houston reported Wednesday.

Andra Ferguson and her boyfriend, Brandon Kivi, both 15, use the same type of asthma medicine,
Albuterol Inhalation Aerosol.

Ferguson said she forgot to bring her medication to their school, Caney Creek High School, on
Sept. 24. When she had trouble breathing, she went to the nurse's office.

Out of concern, Kivi let her use his inhaler.

"I was trying to save her life. I didn't want her to die on me right there because the nurse's
office (doesn't) have breathing machines," Kivi said.

"It made a big difference. It did save my life. It was a Good Samaritan act," Ferguson said.

But the school nurse said it was a violation of the district's no-tolerance drug policy, and
reported Kivi to the campus police.

The next day, he was arrested and accused of delivering a dangerous drug. Kivi was also
suspended from school for three days. He could face expulsion and sent to juvenile detention
on juvenile drug charges.

The mothers of both teenagers are angry.

"My son will not go to jail. This is ridiculous," said Theresa Hock, Kivi's mother. "I believe
he shouldn't be punished at all because he was helping her. She was in distress."

"If he hadn't helped her, she would have passed out or died or something because her asthma's
been really bad this year," said Sandra Ferguson, Andra's mother.

The school principal said he couldn't do anything about it since Kivi not only broke school
rules, but also allegedly violated state law.

"It's simply a matter that it's classified as a dangerous drug. It's an inhaler form, but yet,
if it had been in pill form or any other, it's still classified as a dangerous drug," said
Greg Poole, the Caney Creek principal.

"Would Caney Creek had want Andra to have died rather than my son to help her?" Hock said.

Poole said the nurse never considered Andra to be in a life-threatening situation.

The school district will hold a hearing on the matter Friday.

Location: Portland, Oregon

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