Mar 21, 2014 02:50 PM EDT By Jaleesa Baulkman, UniversityHerald Reporter

A professor at the University of Georgia is facing multiple charges for allegedly asking one of his students to bring him a prescription drug for him out of the country, Campus Reform reported.

Charles Lance, a psychology professor, learned that his student was going to spend her spring break in Mexico and allegedly asked her to bring him back some Bupropion, an antidepressant used to treat depression, mental disorders and smoking cessation, Campus Reform reported.

According to WSBTV, Lance described the pill as the "happy, horny, get skinny drug" and gave the student $120 in cash to purchase it.

"Lance said 'Oh, then you can get me this drug,' and he talked about the drug. And you know everybody in the class kind of laughed, thought he was joking around, but it was kind of awkward for everyone," University of Georgia Police Chief Jimmy Williamson told The Red and Black, the school's independent weekly student newspaper.

But Lance wasn't joking. The tenured professor wrote down the name of the drug and gave her the prescription bottle for the drug and money to buy it.

"You've got to think about all the pressures that were put on her," Williamson said. "First of all, he's a professor, he has control over her, and he's in a position of authority. He asked her to buy drugs for him. And even though it's prescription drugs, it's illegal for her to obtain them because the prescription is not for her. It's not like a friend that says 'Hey, can you do something?' She can easily say no to a friend. It's hard to say no to that professor."

The student then went to the university administrator who intern went to campus police.  They obtained a search warrant and found multiple other prescription drugs in the professor's office that were not in their original containers, Williamson said.

Lance has been placed on administrative leave without pay pending the investigation.

He is charged with three counts of possession of prescription drugs and one count of attempt to obtain dangerous drugs through fraudulent means, WSBTV reported.

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