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.
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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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