With winter coming and the illnesses pouring in, people are using medicine more than usual. Tylenol, cough syrup, and Advil are commonly used but if you’re caught with any sort of medicine with you at school, it can result in suspension.

All medicine is to be kept in the nurse’s office with a note from your doctor and parent. Many people complain about not being able to take medicine at school or only getting eight doses from the nurse per year. Well honestly, that’s because of the student body’s misuse of these medicines in the past. When it comes down to it, administration doesn’t trust us with medication.

An extra tylenol here and there. Another tablespoon of cough syrup. Treating cough drops like candy. Students take for granted the help medicine provides for us. It was created to help us not, to get us high.

When administrators are enforcing this medicine policy, they realize that they did not make this rule to hurt us or to cause us inconvenience, but only to protect us. Those in the past have made dumb mistakes that have ruined the chances for all the rest of us to carry medicine with us. We realize that many of our role models in the world today do abuse drugs, but we have to stand up against that and realize that its not right. If we were all more responsible with medication and how we use it, to better ourselves not to worsen ourselves, we really could show the adults that we are responsible and we do know how to use medication without abusing it.

Medicine helps us a lot and it’s a shame that people misuse it so often. Think about what would happen if medicine wasn’t available to us. Our headaches, sore throats, body aches, everything that medicine helps would persist.

It’s amazing how much we use medicine without even realizing it. Steroids, cough drops and vitamins – these all help us in different ways. Vitamins help our bodies to grow and stay healthy, Steroids are used after surgeries to regain strength, and cough drops are used to sooth sore throats. There’s so many uses other than bad ones for medicine. If you think that popping pills will make you look cool or help you to look cool, it doesn’t. Not only does it make you look bad but it also makes he people around you look bad. You may “feel good” or “look good” while doing it, but in the years to come, or sometimes sooner, you won’t be looking or feeling very good when you find out that your body is experiencing problems that you could have solved earlier on.

This high school is now ours. We need to treat it with respect and show responsibility. Don’t bring your medicine to school and get in trouble when you can easily take it when you are at home or you can go grab some from the nurses. Be responsible with it and we wouldn’t have a problem,