BC Mom chose his son’s ADHD medicine, instead an opioid is given.
BC Mom chose his son’s ADHD medicine, instead an opioid is given.
A mother on Vancouver Island is warning people that she accidentally removed powerful opioid hydromorphone rather than her son’s regular ADHD medicine.
Sara Pixin, a resident of Kmox, BC, 31 -year -old, says she still shouts to think what could happen to her nine -year -old son, her husband did not pay attention that the drug did not see her separate.
“It was terrible,” Paquin said, stood in the yard in front of him, playing with one of his three boys.
“Such a simple small mistake could have ended badly.”
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BC Mom chose his son’s ADHD medicine, instead an opioid is given.
A mother on Vancouver Island is warning people to check their prescriptions very carefully after a close call for her son. As the woman’s Zidler reports, she and her husband found that her pharmacy accidentally removed the wrong medicine.
Pakwin says that when she went to take her son Deccan’s medicine last week, she did not think too much and her local shopkeepers did not investigate her ID or expelled from the bag by the staff member at the drug Mart Pharmacy of her local shopkeepers.
The next day, her husband was about to give her medicine to Declan when she saw the bullets were different colors and shapes from normal.
Her husband looked at the bottle and saw that the prescription was for someone else, and it was for hydromorphone. Immediately he returned to the pharmacy.
“Your brain immediately goes to the worst position,” Paquin said.
“The results could have been frightening and it just wonders to sink my heart what could happen.”
Hydromorphone is a powerful opioid Two to eight times strong Compared to morphine and often used to treat acute pain or chronic cancer pain.
As Mayo Clinic, This can cause severe unwanted effects in children or fatal overdose.
Human error
CBC reached the news loblaws, the company is the owner of Shoppers Drug Mart.
In a written statement, the company said that the incident was a case of “human error” which should never have happened.
The company said, “We have control to reduce such risks – where the patient was handed over the wrong prescription bag – and the associate would review them with employees to avoid similar situations in the future,” the company said.
Pquelin says that he has since heard from the pharmacist, who used to apologize a lot. She says she admitted that the steps were remembered and the standards were abandoned, and told them that the employee who removed the drug was suspended an internal investigation.
Asking for accountability
Despite his assurance, Paquin has filed a complaint with BC’s Pharmacist College.
“Pharmacy needs to take responsibility, to be held accountable for what happened,” he said.
In an email, the college told CBC News that it takes such errors very seriously.
The college said, “To prevent these incidents, we have legal requirements in the Act of Health Businesses, in which all the prescriptions, including compulsory standards for preparation of prescription, to ensure the leaflet products and counseling for the prescription products and counseling, to ensure how the customers understand their medicine, how to take it properly, and address any question.”
As part of pharmacist’s consultation with customers, they are required to confirm the person’s identity, name and drug strength and purpose, it was added.
In 2023-24, the college says that it received a total of 990 concerns through its intake process. Among them, 54 formal complaints and investigations were formed, out of which 16 were related to drugs.
Picvin decided to share his ordinance on social media, warning others to examine his prescription before taking it.
“It’s scary that this happened to us, but I am grateful to us that it happened to us and we caught it because it could be given to someone who could not notice and was hurt,” he said.
