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UPDATE: No students hospitalized after students take prescription drugs brought to Hale Jr. High School

No students at Hale Junior High School have required hospitalization after a student brought prescription drugs to school.

EMSA paramedics were called to the scene after a student brought a prescription anti-depressant, believed to be Abilify, to school and passed it out to classmates who ingested the pills.

Tulsa Public Schools spokesman Chris Payne tells KRMG that a total of 9 students took the pills. 2 other students received pills but chose to notify school officials instead of taking the pills.

Paramedics monitored the students who injested the pills but all 9 students declined a trip to the hospital.

TPS officials tell KRMG that the student who brought the pills to school as well as the ones who took the pills face discimplinary action.

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