Tylenol Allergy (foils and boxes)
Tylenol Sinus (foils and boxes)
CVS Allergy relief (bottle)
Ibuprophen 600
Yes all of these are OTC,
ALL the rest of the medications on the list are required to have a prescription for which she does not have.
Not according to what I have read, much of med names that you have given are medical/scientfic/generic names for medications that are available OTC under different brand names.
In addition, you own list, named most of them as being non-prescription.
Others have mentioned that as well.
For example, Pseudoephedrine, which was in your text as one of the main drugs you found, is the generic name for the main ingredient in Sudafed, which is absolutely an OTC medication. Its also found in other brand name cold medicines.
OG named another...I think someone else named another...
What you have to be understanding is that if you want to claim a drug problem, you have to PROVE that the drug problem exists.
You have to 1) prove that she is obtaining medications that she cannot obtain OTC...and obtaining them without a doctor's prescription (which I honestly don't think that you can do) and 2) you must prove that they negatively effect her ability to parent, (which I don't think that you have hard evidence of either at this point)
The only thing that I think that you can prove at the moment is that she has lots of non-prescription meds that came from the hospital where she works.
Let me give you an example...17 days ago I was diagnosed with acute bronchitis and the doctor (a walk in clinic) gave me 5 different medications for it. I went to the pharmacy with the prescriptions and went home with the meds. I only took 4 of them because one of them, after reading the flyer, made me nervous and didn't seem necessary...14 days ago I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance (at the insistance of the walk in clinic that I called) because it appeared that I was having a heart attack.
I was not having a heart attack, I was one of a rare number of people who had a seriously negative reaction to the combo of meds. I was given new prescriptions and released.
Now...none of my meds could have been purchased OTC...nor were they main ingredients of meds that I could have purchased OTC...so, if I hadn't had prescriptions, there would have been hard evidence/documentation that I was abusing prescription drugs. If they had all been meds available OTC then there also would have been hard evidence that I possibly wasn't paying sufficent attention to the combo of OTC drugs that I was taking.
If, over the course of several years I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance multiple times for things that turned out to be bad combos of OTC drugs, then there would be clear evidence that I was abusing/being stupid about OTC drugs.
However, if I had in my medicine cabinet a full bottle of every single drug you listed, but under their OTC brand names, plus a handful..or even more than a handful of prescription meds provided to me over a couple of years, with no trips to the hospital or any other OUTSIDE evidence of problems, no one would think twice.
You are thinking twice because the meds are coming from the hospital where she works that she is abusing prescription drugs because they are coming from the hospital under their generic names, rather than their brand names, and because you don't see a bottle with a pharmacy lable, you are assuming that they are non prescribed or something that she is ingesting illegally somehow.
In all reality, she may be committing a crime. She may be stealing meds from the hospital where she works rather than paying for them at the drugstore...or she may be accepting "samples" from drug sales reps who are issuing them from their stock as "samples' for the hospital she works for...your evidence certainly points to something like that...even if she has/had prescriptions for the meds that required prescriptions.
What your
evidence does NOT point to is that she is abusing any kind of medication.
