Kids O.D. on prescription drugs

Several local parents are thankful their children are alive after they overdosed on prescription drugs.

Three teens went to the hospital. They are 15 and 14-year-old girls and they are going to be okay, but Captain John Glascott of the Cheektowaga Police tells news 4 their actions really need to be a lesson to everyone.

"Whether they got into an area they didn't belong and got into prescription drugs that belonged to somebody else and they decided to take them. And it's a very stupid thing to do. It almost had extremely tragic consequences," said Glascott.

At 10 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25, police say five teens were in an apartment complex on French Road in Cheektowaga. When one of the teen's mother came home, she found three of them unconscious. They had to be taken to the hospital.

Glascott commented, "This would appear to be a misuse of prescription drugs. It would appear that these girls were together and got into prescription drugs and overdosed."

Glascott explained that the girls mixed different prescription drugs together, but cannot give any additional information on what drugs were taken.

"I hope that these young ladies a learned a lesson and if they didn't they'd get the treatment they need so that somebody can pound it into their heads. And I think everybody needs to know that prescription drugs are there for the people who the prescription was written for," said Glascott.

Sources tell News 4 that the prescription drugs were locked up, but that the teens somehow got into them anyway. News 4 did attempt to contact one of the teens' mothers, but no one was home.