Girl Mistakenly Drugged by Boots Pharmacist with Heroin Substitute

A pharmacist from London Boots mistook a girl's mother for an addict and prescribed her with heroin substitute that was then administered to her daughter, according to Daily Mail.

An unnamed child was allegedly drugged with a heroin substitute that is intended for an addict after the pharmacist from London Boots gave her mother the wrong medication. This was after the mother of the child went into the 24-hour branch of Boots to collect a repeat prescription of Flucloxacillin, an antibiotic used to treat chest infections among children.

This girl who was prescribed with a heroin substitute should have been prescribed with the said antibiotic. However, six doses of the addict's methadone were administered to her before the pharmacist realized the mistake. She was later on brought to the hospital for treatment. NHS's Freedom of Information Law released the details of the mistake but failed to name the pharmacist involved in the issue, the mother and her daughter. 

The mix up took place because the staff at the London pharmacy claimed the girl's mother looked like the addict, which confused them. Later that day, the addict went to the same pharmacy to collect her repeat prescription of methadone which was rejected by another pharmacist who said that it was already given to her earlier that day. That is when they realized that a mistake actually did take place, according to Godlike Productions.

A five-milligram dose of methadone was administered to the child by her mother who thought that the medicine she was giving her was the antibiotic that she need for her illness. By the time the error was uncovered, the young girl has already taken approximately 30 milligrams of methadone, a powerful heroin substance that follows very strict rules for administration.