- LONDON (Reuters) - Six British
schoolboys were rushed to hospital after taking the erection-enhancing
drug Viagra at lunchtime for a dare, the school said on Thursday.
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- Forest School in Winnersh, southern England said paramedics
were called after a fellow student told teachers about the 13-year-olds'
prank.
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- "It is believed that a pupil brought the tablets
in from home into the all-boys school and shared them with five friends,"
the local education authority said in a statement.
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- The Sun newspaper quoted a source at the school as saying:
"By the time the afternoon lessons began, there was no hiding what
they had done."
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- Paramedics took the six squirming boys to the nearby
Royal Berkshire Hospital, where they were monitored until the effects wore
off.
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- "The school has a strict no drugs policy and a pupil
will be temporarily excluded for actions which placed other pupils at risk,"
the education authority added.
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