Yesterday, a concerned father came into the pharmacy with a pill his wife found in their 13 year old son’s bedroom. We took a look at the pill, knowing full well that it was most likely a narcotic, but we gave the kid the benefit of the doubt.

It was a round, white pill, with the number 30 on one side, and some other numbers on the other side. When we looked it up, it turned out to be Morphine Sulfate ER 30mg.

The pharmacist told this to the father, who just about lost it. “What!” he said in disbelief. He asked for a printout about it, and of course all we could do was print the patient info sheet that goes in every prescription bag. (He wanted something with a picture, but none of our sources had one.)

Personally, I feel no sympathy for the kid, only for the parent. If you’re smart enough to hide it from your parents and stupid enough to get caught, you deserve whatever your parents dish out. (If this had happened when I was 13, my parents would have smacked me so hard, I’d still be feeling it.)

Besides, there are enough illegal drugs out there with fewer side effects.

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