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What and who should one go to if prescribe controlled drugs are being removed by housemate/partner when the person who they are for is not in the house (due to hospital visit - dialysis three times a week) or asleep? Drug in question high does fentanyl lozenges. Friday she discovered that a box was missing, so hospital found her some to keep her from withdrawal symptoms. This morning she wakes to find that they are not in her bag where she left them. she will now be without until tomorrow afternoon, when her weekly painkillers wil be delivered. she suffers from severe pain and is under the palliative care team.
Need to know how to get this woman to stop it. I suspect it will be the police, but need to find out what else we can do, and yes throwing her out is on the cards.
I'm afraid you will have to report this to the police as a theft. I realise these drugs are given primarily to cancer patients who are in a lot of pain and the stress will not be welcome but this is the only route I can think of. You should also talk to the doctor about this as he will need to understand what the situation is with why you are going through so many of them.
Most definately report to the police - not only is the individual who is taking the drugs seriously breaking the law (this offence carries a prison sentance of up to 14 years I think), they are also depriving the person they are prescribed for from adequate pain relief which is completely reprehensible. I would be evicting them immediately - how low can someone stoop
maybe a sticky one as the person that signs for those controlled drugs is actually reponsible for them, the need to get the police involved would be a theft issue i would imagine
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that what the police have said - its theft - they dont give a damn about pain and suffering nor about abuse of a disabled person - and its a minor theft issue
sorry sister1, looks like you're going to have to press for eviction of the thief, you can't have a disabled person in pain because of their selfishness.
It should come under the Misuse of Drugs Act and other relevant legislation. I would call and ask to speak to a senior officer or CID. Is this person still living in the property?
unfortunately yes - but daughter is currently in hospital - I reported theft of 3 full boxes last Friday, as the boxes that had been left in the house on Thursday when I rescued my daughter from extreme unwellness (she could not even get out of bed) and took her to hospital were no longer there on Friday when I went to get her some clothes etc. for use in hospital. I am told that there were not that many there, and two boxes from the previous weeks batch were produce one with 6 lozenges and the other with 9. There are 30 in a box)
Out of interest what is the street value of these? I dont know, but am told that there is a street value. My daughter gets 180 lozenges a week as well as diazepan and temazepan and other drugs for her various problems. I have had this weeks supply stopped by asking both the doctor to tell the pharmacist, and I have asked the pharmacist (all in writing) not to supply them, until my daughter is discharged from hospital. Her partner told her that she would make sure that she got them because she and the pharmacist are good mates! If the pharmacist has handed them over I will be having his licence. Sorry I am mad at all of this. And most of all mad with the Police - our force has the worse record in the UK for attending to anything that is illegal! And if they do not take a statement it is not a crime.
This is disgusting, I would be taking this further. If the pharmacist supplies without a prescription he is breaking the law and you can't get a prescription without the doctor signing it off so it's unlikely your daughters partner will get them. If she does then there's lots you can do and it can end up with the pharmacist getting a fine, jail time and his licence revoked.
I'd do as poppy suggests and get onto the CID, someone is benefitting from your daughters prescription by either abusing the drugs themselves or selling them on. In Glasgow you can expect to get £3 to £5 per lozenge btw, a tidy profit considering this person presumably doesn't pay your daughters prescription cost.
still waiting for the police - phoned again today- promised some one would be here by 3! they had put it on the computer totally differently to what I had told them - no faith in the police - they always get things wrong in my experience - i have in the past started a complaints procedure against them, came to nothing because PC went on to long term sick, then took early retirement!
they have been - very concerned but as its all circumstantial there is little they can do except log it - so if we can come up with "evidence" they will interview her. But they will keep their ears and eyes open to see if they are being sold in our little town.
Well here you are looking at about £5 to £8 per tablet for diazepan.
and between £3 and £5 for temazepan.
The lozenges we have not really heard of but we think that if they are as good as they sound they will fetch about £10 to £15 a loxenge.
I keep my ear to the ground on this sort of thing as l have worked voluntary with th mental health sector and have know ppl to be on these drugs.
Round here the pammys as they are known are more easily to get unless you are abusing them.
The reason we seem to think the lozenges will be so high is morphine caps go for about £20 a tablet and tramadol, another strong pain relif, goes for the same as the lozenges.
I have asked a few friend who work in the mental health sector about this BTW.
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