STANLEY, N.C. — A father is demanding answers after he discovered his son’s Adderall pills have been slowing disappearing at school.
Daniel Whitehouse says his son takes one Adderall pill a day at Community Charter School in Stanley to help with an attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis.
“He gets it at school to keep the focus during the day — and it helped him a lot,” Whitehouse tells Channel 9. “His grades ... he’s on honor roll every single semester.”
But last week, school officials reached out to Whitehouse to request a 30-day refill, confirming his son only had two pills left. “There’s only been 14 school days since the last refill, so we knew something was up,” Whitehouse says.
After going over records, Whitehouse discovered 31 pills in the last three to four months were missing.
Whitehouse says he got a copy of his son’s medication log and found other discrepancies: “There were a couple of days that were actually weekdays, where he wasn’t absent but he was marked absent.”
Community Charter sent Whitehouse a letter saying, “The student’s medication has been compromised,” and a police report was filed.
Authorities in Stanley tell Channel 9 they’re investigating the case as “embezzlement of a controlled substance”.
So far, Community Charter has declined to comment.
“To find out all the things that had been mishandled — from how they store the pills, dispensing them, the record-keeping — really made us lose a lot of trust in the whole administration,” Whitehouse says.
He hopes police find the person responsible, and that the school ensures this doesn’t happen again.
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