B.C. mom picks up her son’s ADHD medication, is given an opioid instead [Video]

A mother on Vancouver Island is warning people to double check their prescriptions after she was accidentally dispensed the powerful opioid hydromorphone instead of her son’s regular ADHD medication. 

Comox, B.C., resident Sarah Paquin, 31, says she still shudders to think about what could have happened to her nine-year-old son had her husband not noticed the medication looked different before he gave it to him. 

“It was terrifying,” Paquin said, standing in her front yard and playing with one of her three boys. 

“One simple little mistake like that could have ended horribly.”

WATCH | 9-year-old dispensed opioid in pharmacy mix-up: A mother on Vancouver Island is warning people to check their prescriptions very carefully after a close call for their son. As Maryse Zeidler reports, she and her husband found that their pharmacy accidentally dispensed the wrong medication.

Paquin says she didn’t think too much of it when she went to pick up her son Declan’s medication …