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Coroner: Patient dies after pharmacy supplied 'additional methadone’

 
• By Kate Bowie

A man has fatally overdosed after his pharmacist misinterpreted the wording of his prescription and gave him medicine “in advance” even though the pharmacy was open, a coroner has found. 

Pharmacy sign
The pharmacist "believed that he had a discretion to provide [the drug] in advance"
Kate Bowie

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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