A mix at a pharmacy turned out to be almost fatal after the ADHD drug of a six-year-old was accidentally exchanged with a deadly dose of opioids.
Sarah Paquin, a mother of three from British Columbia in Canada, said that her son had brought Decan Dextramfetamine to treat his attention shortcoming hyperactivity disorder for years.
Paquin picked up his recipe, as she always did with a local shoppers Drug Mart Pharmacy and noticed nothing unusual.
However, when her husband David started giving his daily medication the next morning, he noticed that the pills had a different color.
When he checked the label in the bottle, he realized that it contained a high dose of the Opioid Hydromorphone and the name was on the recipe of a woman who did not know the family.
Hydromorphone is about four times more powerful than morphine. The drug has the possibility to cause life -threatening breathing problems.
This risk is particularly high for children because of their smaller size and weight. “It’s just frightening. We trust these local professionals to maintain their end, “said Paquin.
She urges people to check their medication labels.
Sarah Paquin from Comox in British Columbia said that her six -year -old son had taken Declan Dexroamfetamine to treat his ADHD for years. But she was shocked when his pills were mixed up and he used a medicine almost four times as morphine
The Paquin family wants to make their story public in an attempt to warn other parents about the importance of being vigilant
She told CTV News: ‘[The pills] were in his hands.
“He would have had this high dosage of morphine and that he would be unconsciously sent to school … I think this was completely avoidable.”
Mr Paquin immediately returned the medicine to the pharmacy, where the pharmacist gave him a repayment, but she was unable to find the right recipe.
The order had to be topped up.
As a comment on the issue, a spokesperson for the parent company of Shoppers Drug Mart, Loblaw PR, told Dailymail.com: ‘After assessing the store, we learned that this was a case of human mistakes, one that should never have happened.
‘We have checks to minimize these types of risks – where the patient has handed over the wrong prescribed bag – and the employee will assess them with employees to prevent a similar situation in the future.
“The owner of this location contacted the patient’s parents to apologize for unnecessary stress that may have caused this and to outsource the corrective steps.”
The Paquin family says they have also been informed that the pharmacist is responsible for the error suspended.
They now want to make their story public in an attempt to warn other parents about the importance of being vigilant.
Mrs. Paquin says: ‘[Patients and parents should] Double, triple, quadruple control, every recipe that you record, whether you have been going to that pharmacy for years, whether it is a medicine that you have been working on for years. ‘
The Paquins have also filed a complaint with the college of British Columbia pharmacists about the incident.
The organization controls all pharmacies in the province.
The FDA receives more than 100,000 reports with regard to medication errors annually, whereby they contribute to a maximum of 9,000 deaths.
In 2022, a former nurse in Tennessee was found guilty of criminal negligent murder in the death of a patient who accidentally received the wrong medication.
Radonda Vaught, 37, was also convicted of gross neglect of a reduced adult in a case that established the attention of proponents of patient safety and nurses throughout the country.
Vaught injected the paralyzing drug vecuronium into the 75-year-old Charlene Murphey instead of the calming agent on December 26, 2017.
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