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Should a pharmacist associate candy with prescription medicine bottles? (Poll Closed)

Yes 46% (384 votes)

No 54% (459 votes)

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Chastity Knowles
2009-04-04 16:54:15 ET

The results of this poll greatly concerns me. Do 155 intelligent adults actually think that it is OK to assiociate candy with medicine bottles? This is obsurd! This makes me wonder are school administrators voting this way to cover their buts, or are 67% of the people that voted on this poll drug addicts? This sounds like a law suit to me, this goes against everything that we as adults teach our children in our desperate attemt to keep them safe in this crazy world. Is Wagner Schools next career day going to teach their impressionable young children to get into cars with strangers as long as they look nice?!?

Karen West
2009-04-05 14:28:46 ET

Shame on you Mrs. Hills, and Channel 6 News for reporting incorrect information. Do you know how hard it is for the Wagener area schools to get speakers to agree to come? This pharmacist traveled a good distance in stormy, rainy weather to arrive by 8:00. Why didn't you ask your grandson's teacher, or call the school before you gave false information?? That was unfair!
The pharmacist NEVER showed the students how to open or close the containers. The pharmacist NEVER associated the jelly beans with medicine. At the end of the presentation, the speaker asked the students who like jelly beans? The pharmacist told them since they had been good listeners, he/she wanted to say thank you by giving them some jelly beans.
The students used the containers to shake as they repeated the poison control number (Mr. Yuk) several times. How many classrooms, churches, and families recycle these containers (musical instruments, glue containers, for experiments, to keep small items in...)?? Look at the mini M&M's container and other candy containers (they favor medicine containers, too). Also, the pharmacist used jelly beans because they DIDN'T look like medicine.
The pharmacist told the students how some plants, deodorant, spray perfume, mushrooms (that grow in their yards), and some berries can be dangerous to their health. This person also told them the different places a pharmcist can work (hospital, retail, privately owned drug stores...). The pharmacist showed them a picture of the robot they use, and how it works. The pharmacist stressed NEVER to take medicine unless a parent, nurse, or doctor administered it to them. This person had the students repeat this several times. When Mr. Mills, the principal, went around to the classrooms the next day, the students told him that only their parents, a nurse, or a doctor should give them medicine.The pharmacist also brought lab coats and a prescipition pad so they could role play (the characters: child, mom, dad, nurse, doctor, and pharmacists). The most important thing the pharmacist gave to the students was the fact that if they apply themselves now, and work hard, then one day they also could become anything their hearts desire. The pharmacist told the students that he/she was also from a rural town just like them. Now, thanks to you, this pharmacist will NEVER agree to speak here again! Comments like Ms. Knowles, and yours, ruin and damage good deeds and programs. Next time, research before speaking about something you know nothing about!


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