Teen Dies from Withdrawal After School District Bans Smartphones

One day into the start of a new school year, and new rules restricting students' use of smartphones on campuses within the Los Angeles Unified School District, tragedy struck when 16-year-old Addison Meadows died on the floor of her Mira Loma High classroom in Redondo Beach.

Meadows, who, according to her Instagram page loved strawberry ice cream, Taylor Swift and 'just hanging out' with friends, had no idea what she was walking into her first day back at school.

"Most of us had no idea this ban was even happening. The bell rang and our teachers were all, like, 'you can't have your phones. You have to leave them in this box, or whatever'," fellow Mira Loma High student Bryce Boxburger described. "It was weird."

Weird, and later, during 5th period biology, sad.

"She was sitting there, then just kind of fell over onto the floor," classmate Madison Likely described. "It was crazy. She was all like twitching, or whatever. And this stuff was coming out of her nose."

The shocking scene was made even more upsetting when Meadows' classmates realized they had no way of recording it.

"I was like, I gotta get this. But then I was all, oh yeah. They took our phones," Likely said.

LAUSD administrators have since agreed to allow students experiencing smartphone withdrawal symptoms access to some old Speak and Spells they found in storage, which also have buttons that do stuff.