Husband and wife selling drugs from a diaper bag

Last week I read a story about some female pharmacy tech who stole a few hundred pills and sold them in the parking lot.  Now that was pretty damn stupid!

This, however, really takes the biscuit.  A husband and wife have been arrested after walking around town pushing strollers with their two kids in — all the while selling drugs from the kids diaper bags underneath the stroller.

The womans mother was a pharmacy technician who managed to steal over 12,000 Lortab pills.  She got charged with distribution, which is pretty much a jail sentence guaranteed.

The husband and wife have been charged with distribution of narcotics too and felony child endangerment.  I hope they take the kids off them, seriously!

Stories like this make me laugh because I honestly think that the pharmacy technician salary I get is so good that I would never risk it by stealing drugs!  There are too many systems in place to get away with it.  Not only that, but it’s morally wrong.

Then again, every time I see a photo of the criminals, I realize why they did.  They are stupid!

Alberta will regulate all pharmacy technicians from July 1st

This doesn’t affect me because, well, I’m not in Alberta, but it is pretty interesting.

As of July 1st, all pharmacy technicians will be regulated.  The idea is that it will standardize training for techs and give them more responsibility.  The end goal is to free up the pharmacists time to spend more time with patients at the counter.

As a pharmacy technician, my thoughts are mixed on this.  Yes, I think it will give the patients better care and it is a better use of resources, but what I really want to know is how this will affect the pharmacy technician salary?

Also, it could be a recipe for mistakes as the pharmacists I have worked with can and do miss things.  Patients getting the wrong drugs and/or dose is definitely bad news all around.
It seemed to work out for Ontario though after they introduced it last fall.  I guess time will tell on this one.

What do you think?