Halloween mixup

November 4, 2015

A pharmacy in Quebec City, Canada is making headlines after accidentally giving quetiapine tablets to children who visited the store while “trick or treating” for Halloween. According to a police spokesman, seven individually wrapped pills somehow found their way into a bowl of lollies, after a woman dropped her 17-year-old son’s medicine by mistake as she was leaving the pharmacy. Another customer saw the tablets on the floor and put them on the counter next to the candy basket, and then an employee mistakenly mixed the plastic bags of bipolar medication with the sweets. It’s not clear whether the children actually took the pills.

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Pharmacy Daily | Halloween mixup

Halloween mixup

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Pharmacy spend on the up

DDS named Canstar’s Best Pharmacy

Med safety initiative for intellectual disability

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