>daughter is asthmatic and needs to have her inhaler
  >inhaler.  I told them that was not acceptable and I
  >wanted her to have it ON HER PERSON at all times.  They
  >told me that allowing students to carry DRUGS was
RT> drills when he began to experience an asthma attack.  The
RT> Sergeant Major refused to allow him to stop and get his
RT> The very tragic end of the story was that he died before
RT> EMT's arrived. They say that he had an unknown heart
Unfortunately a lot of people don't realize that asthma
is a deadly disease.  When you can't breath your heart
rate and blood pressure both go through the roof.  I
once had a resting heart rate of 135 and they wouldn't
tell me what my BP was so I know it was really bad.
RT> I know that this does not relate directly to the `zero
RT> tolerance' thread, but I can see how the end result could be
RT> the same when applied in the academic environment.
It could.  I have another medical condition that
requires me to take meds every six hours.  Most of the
time when I'm out and about I take a couple in a med
bottle that doesn't have any type of label.  If I were
stopped in a ZT area I would be arrested and the
"drugs" taken away.  If this was to happen just before
a treatment it could be several hours before the mess
was straightened out.  In that period of time I'd be in
bad shape.
The same thing could happen to an insulin dependent
diabetic caught with a syringe in a ZT area in a city
with a law against carrying syringes.
If the person wasn't carrying ID I think it would be
even worse.
                      Remember:  Freedom isn't Free!
--- timEd-B11
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