Weld Co. woman claims Walgreen’s pharmacy botched prescriptions

Posted on: 9:08 pm, March 9, 2012, by Tammy Vigil, updated on: 10:42pm, March 9, 2012

FIRESTONE, Colo. A woman in Firestone claims a Walgreens pharmacy made three medication mistakes that could have harmed her family.

There are about 1.5 million medication errors every year that result in injuries. So, Kristi Warner counts herself as lucky.

They messed up three times in two weeks with me, she says.

Warner says it started two weeks ago, when the pharmacy didnt give her enough anti-depressant.

They gave her enough to cover just one pill a day, instead of one-and-a-half pills.

So I ran out. And I had to go, I had to go a week without my medication. When I go without that, I get sick, she says.

Then on Friday, she says there were two mistakes.

The pharmacy gave her 11-year-old son time-release Ritalin instead of the short-acting type of the drug prescribed by his doctor.

It also gave her 3-year-old a more potent antibiotic than he was supposed to get.

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Weld Co. woman claims Walgreen’s pharmacy botched prescriptions