Dilemma at DPs work with medication.

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Posting here for traffic. Here’s the dilemma – my DP saw someone at work, call him Bob, giving someone else, call her Anna, some medication that had been prescribed for Bob. He then said that they weren’t really anti-depressants but they helped and to take them out of the box because the box had his, Bob’s name on it. My DP is now troubled. No-one of these three is anyone else’s superior. There’s no HR dept to tell. DP has emailed boss and boss has said don’t worry, Anna is fine, you’re overthinking.
If Anna is depressed and takes an inappropriate medication it could make her feel worse and she could presumably be at risk of harming herself or someone else in which case Bob’s in the shit, too, right?
But given boss is saying do nothing, nothing to see here, should DP just butt out having done all he can do?
WWYD?

I don't know any of these people I'm just trying to help DP who's obviously been disturbed by what he's seen, which was in the open by the way, at the start of a meeting, not in some dark corner.

But your DH doesn't even know what they were?

SofiaAmes thank you, that is EXACTLY where we are coming from. Very sorry to hear about your ds and his friend. It seems to me it's so easy for vulnerable people to just clutch at straws when they might really be hurting themselves.

It raises a few questions.
Why is someone getting a prescription for drugs they don’t need?
Why hasn’t person he has given them too gone to their GP?
What’s itbgot to,do,with work?

For supplier, do they realise dealing in Benzodiazepines is a criminal offence? Do they realise there are numerous drug interactions? At bes bstupid to supply. At worst criminal.

So the boss saw this, didn’t say anything but your DH decided he needed to bring it back up?

For all you know the boss already addressed, they explained what the medication was, and they had a reasonable explanation. Boss would share that scenario with your DH because it’s not up to him to share an employees medical history.

MYOB!

Theres no evidence whatsoever to say hes passing onBenzodiazepines

The OP has no idea what was in the box

Theres also nothing to suggest hes getting tablets he doesnt need

Omfg. OP people with mental health issues aren’t vulnerable people that need your protection. That’s is so insulting it’s not even funny.

Really if you saw someone doing something dangerous/possibly life threatening would you not say something to them or to their supervisor?

To them, yes. To their supervisor, no (assuming they're adult and their role does not involve medication)

Elphie54 well actually I'd have fucking loved someone to have stuck their beak in when I was very young, ill, and vulnerable and took an overdose. But no-one did. We all see things differently. You're being very aggressive and assuming my motives are somehow malicious. Nothing, but nothing, could be further from the truth.

I have to admit I am shocked at all the people here who claim to be quite happy sharing prescription medication... If it's not available OTC you shouldn't be giving it out!

Me too. If I'd been in OP's DH's shoes, I would have said something to Anna and Bob. I may or may not have said something to the manager.

I don't agree this is "officious" at all.

AT most I'd have spoken to the people concerned, but why the fuck would you involve a manager?

I can see you have good intentions, but any further intervention is intrusive. I have two good friends on the same medication who will ‘lend’ each other a few until the other gets to the doctor etc. It could also be a herbal remedy or vitamin.

Except you don’t know that is what is happening here. Just because you would have welcomed some else sticking their beak in something that does not concern them, doesn’t mean others would.

Let it go! Seriously. Any further intrusion is going to look like harassment.

Yes and I repeatedly have said that I agree and we will let it go, but you seem unable to read that and let it go, Elphie54

For all you know, the boss may know what the medication was and why it was given to her which is why he said it was fine and not to worry.

Because you keep harping about how you need to protect her etc.

Shepherdspie no one knows that it is benzos.

whatwouldyoubelikeat28 The laws about supply of benzodiazepines don’t mention payment. It is supplying ie drug dealing, that is an offence not receiving payments.
It is interactions and contraindications. Both need consideration when prescribing. That’s why they are prescription only (apart from the physically addictive nature of these drugs).

Theres also nothing to suggest hes getting tablets he doesnt need

Well, if he can give them away, then he doesn't need them, does he? Or he does need them, and therefore he should be taking them himself. Whichever it is, he's wasting nhs resources by giving them away.

I'm glad some people have said they tbo k sharing prescribed medication ould possibly be a cause for concern.

And some other people have been pretty aggressive to the OP.

Actually I'm now just having a conversation on mumsnet. I really have accepted that we have no more involvement in it. It's still good to keep discussing it here, because that's what mumsnet's for. But you seem determined to think we're about to take it further, despite the fact I've said about eight times now that we're not.
Ho hum.

For all you know, the boss may know what the medication was and why it was given to her which is why he said it was fine and not to worry.

Is the boss a qualified medical practitioner or pharmacist with full knowledge of Bob and Anna's medical history? If not, he can't know that it was fine.

Thanks sooty