Where did they go to school at?

Sad that the majority of the population is so dumb that they leave scripts within reach of their kids

What in the world are they thinking. We try to teach kids to stay away from drugs. And you want to pull a stunt like this.

how stupid were they. they could have put the candy in bags like m n m's and have there store info on the bag. the right size order and m n m's will print what you want on the bag. the person that came up with this idea should be on the unemployment line.

As the drug problem with perscription drugs rises with our teens has this company lost thier mind's.
Our teenagesr's have the highest rate ever of being addited to perscriptions drug's they're so easy to get because parent's don't think.Now we have a phamacy that want's to take a stupid stunt to promote themselve's and put candy in drug bottle's. Do they have a brain. I have three teenage boy's and three grandchildren.Im bi-polar and my perscription's can not only get my teenager's high but kill my grandkid's, so I take
no chance's I keep my medication locked uped. Not that I don't trust my children, but my home is alway's full of kid's so I take no chance's. More parent's need to wake up.And this phamacy should be fined and the owner fired.

STUPID IDEA Enough said!!!

STUPID IDEA Enough said!!!

LETS KEEP BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE FOR PARENTS MISTAKES, DIDN'T SOUND LIKE THE PARENTS HAD A PROBLEM WITH THEIR KIDS EATING THE CANDY OUT OF THE PILL BOTTLE. PROBABLY THE SAME PARENTS THAT LEAVE THEIR PILLS OUT TOO.

The mistake was made. I hope they learned from it and wont repeat it. You all should be ashamed for casting stones!

Geniuses. It is West Virginia after all. The state with 2 million people, and 15 last names.

Ingenuous idea, all of you must be OLD. From now on I am eating all my cady from a prescription bottle!

Why don't you leave the news reporting to the professionals. Plagerizing & utilizing SEO tactics to game MSN searches will eventually get you blacklisted, or worse, sued.

I think alot of people try to blame companies for there life problems if parents where more involved in there kids lives they would know there was a problem before it was to late there is too many parents letting kids raise thereselves making adulting decisions and want to be mad in the after fact and blame everyone else step up be a parent and accept your responsabilities!

I'm a pharm tech, and it makes me wonder what they were thinking at this pharmacy. There are a lot of pills that look like candy, I've seen iron tablets that look exactly like M&Ms and there's a drug called Suboxone that has a sweet citrus smell. It's not just kids that will get a negative message from this, I've seen loads of people that think they can't live without pills, be they controlled or not. It may send the message that, like candy, it won't really hurt you. Adverse reactions aren't anything to be played with, because you just simply never know. The fact that a registered pharmacist would agree to this ploy blows my mind..

Okay, both sides are at fault. First, parents need to teach their kids right from wrong. Second, the whole pharmaceutical industry needs to do a better job. Yes, poor stunt by the drug store. However, ultimately it comes down to the parents teaching their kids right from wrong. If the parents are going down the wrong path, then they cannot be expected to teach their kids right from wrong, because their "right" is an automatic "wrong."

It's West Virginia. Enough said.

To Lori Paul:

Is this really what they taught you in English class back in grade school?

As the drug problem with perscription drugs rises with our teens has this company lost thier mind's.
Our teenagesr's have the highest rate ever of being addited to perscriptions drug's they're so easy to get because parent's don't think.Now we have a phamacy that want's to take a stupid stunt to promote themselve's and put candy in drug bottle's. Do they have a brain. I have three teenage boy's and three grandchildren.Im bi-polar and my perscription's can not only get my teenager's high but kill my grandkid's, so I take
no chance's I keep my medication locked uped. Not that I don't trust my children, but my home is alway's full of kid's so I take no chance's. More parent's need to wake up.And this phamacy should be fined and the owner fired.

Posted by: Lori Paul at July 10, 2009 8:49 AM

Or did you forget?

Prety Funnie!

We had enough problems with our kids, without having to worry about making them think prescribed drugs are candy. These people must not have kids or they don't care.

you fail if your kids would even pick up a rx bottle unless you tell them this one has candy in it for the parade. they will also probably never see rx bottles just flying around like that either. cmon dont be fail parents

you fail if your kids would even pick up a rx bottle unless you tell them this one has candy in it for the parade. they will also probably never see rx bottles just flying around like that either. cmon dont be fail parents

I'm almost relieved that I don't have children to raise in this increasingly irresponsible and insane country where it seems that every media mouthpiece, politician, shit, EVERYBODY on television, etcetera, no longer even pretends to give a crap anymore. I have a friend in prison and they call their psych meds "skittles". That's prison. Now a parade? It's a deliberate message to anyone who pays attention.

you gotta be shiten me! that has got to be the most irresponsible thing a company or business could do! i cant believe what im reading!

I agree that parents need to be more involved. The thing that you need to keep in mind is that just like you and I, if the kids want it they can get it.
The perscription drug problem with teens AND adults sickens me. It is definately something to be concerned about. Not only as parents, but, as a general population.
The statement made about parents blaming companies for life's problems, and parents stepping up makes me laugh.
Please understand that as a parent you can be involved to the max and the kids still get involved with such things.
There is no excuse for the pharmacies thought process. Period.

This guy must have been takeing his own pills because he lost his brains somewhere along the way. He has a head on his shoulders but nothing BETWEEN THE EARS!!!!!!!

Keep prescriptions out of kid's reach. Then tell your kids about the candy. You'd be surprised how smart they really are. They know the difference. I did the same thing for their Doctor play kits. Some people have to complain about everything!

This is very disturbing news. The pharmacy definately needed to think things over better before making such a decision. Let's take this a little further,,,,what would children's services do if parents gave their children candy in prescription bottles? How about if the police (or anyone else) handed out real guns but with "pretend" bullets?
Yes, keeping medications out of the reach of children IS important, but, there are some out there that need to be refrigerated. You can't very well lock that up.
Let's grow up people and realize that WE ALL need to act more responsibly when it comes to certain things in life. EVERYONE NEEDS TO JOIN IN AND TAKE THEIR PART IN TEACHING CHILDREN SAFETY AND PROPER DECISION MAKING!!!

It's sad that a company can't do anything creative anymore because other people don't know how to control themselves. Parents shouldn't leave pills out for kids and have them locked up. And don't try to pull the whole, "it's teaching teenagers to take pills". That problem should be taken care of already by parents.

Let me put it a different way. What if they handed out water guns?? Would they be teaching kids it's fun to kill people with guns? It was harmless, fun, and people need to stop being afraid of everything.

This is lame I hate people that cant control there kids so they look for someone or something to blam I just want to say that Dodie Rhodes sons death was her falt if she was a good mother she would have tought her kids that drugs were not something to play with and now she is trying to make her self look better by takeing down the candy pushers please get a life and shut up some times ppl just need to get there fix of candy.so I think that the Pharmacy had a good idea

No my friend, no pills taken here.
Taking this to a personal level shows your intelligence(or lack there of).
My point is that WE as a society need to take responsibility. From the companies, the medis, AND the parents, everyone is responsible!!!!

This situation where kids are taking perscription pills is very serious to any and everyone who has children coming into there homes. Face it, at some point everyone does. We, as parents and role models to the youth of our society need to be aware of this situation to help resolve this. It is easy to put up your medication, and to keep it safely out of children's reach. Build a wooden box, buy a good latch and put a padlock on it for heavens sake. Talk to your kids and explain to them "CLEARLY" the results, including death. Sometimes information with explanation is the best key. Your children learn alot and know alot more than we are aware of. Often this information comes from school friends, and they share their concerns and problems with each other due to the fact some kids CANNOT talk to their parents. Taking time with them and talking helps them to relate and understand. I have 2 children of my own and all their friends call me mom too, so I talk to all of them, not just about drugs, but about any and everything they ask me(within reason and knowledge). Kids are smart, just help guide them and this problem might just disappear.

This has to be the stupidest idea yet
dont we try to keep children to not take or touch presciption bottles???
To put them in those bottles is only telling them its ok, grow up idiots who came up with those ideas

This has to be the stupidest idea yet
dont we try to keep children to not take or touch presciption bottles???
To put them in those bottles is only telling them its ok, grow up idiots who came up with those ideas

keep your pill bottles away from your kids!!!How responsable are parents that leave them where a child can get them???? DUH!!!

keep your pill bottles away from your kids!!!How responsable are parents that leave them where a child can get them???? DUH!!!

Hmmm...... I think them putting candy in perscription bottles was not wrong only for the fact that parents should teach kids right from wrong. I guess it is ok to buy candy ciggerettes when we try to teach kids not to smoke. But not ok to put candy in a perscription bottle. To me that is the same thing both can potentially be deadly. I think that everyone in this country likes to play the blame game and not take responsibility for there own actions. If your child opens and overdoses on a perscription are you gonna sue this Pharmacy when you as a parent should have had that bottle out of reach? I am a mom of 4 and all I can do is try my best to teach my kids right and wrong and pray that they will listen. (and keep perscriptions out of there reach)

I am from West Virginia and this isn't some redneck, inbreed thing. It wasn't a well thought out promotion, but this could have happened anywhere.

I think this is a good way for these parents to talk to their kids about the danger of using medicine that doesn't belong to them.

However you can go to any chain pharmacy and they will add "yummy" falvors to your child's medicine to make it taste better. So aren't we telling our kids that medicine should taste like candy.

Maybe by this happening someone tonight will sit down with their kids and have a converstation about this. That may the best thing that could have come out of it.

IDIOTS

Hahaha she lost her kid to an overdose

Remind me not to send my children to the School of Pharmacy were these guys attended. Being in the pharmaceutical industry for 42 years I see this as one dumb-ass marketing blunder.

Those of you who have no problem with it probably have no kids. Furthermore you should learn to spell.

This is giving the wrong kind of message. You give kids these, and they expect all bottles to have candy, I would put the ban on this and kick that company to the curb!

FIRST OFF JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE IS FROM WEST VIRGINIA DOES NOT MAKE THEM IDIOTS. THE PHARMACY, ON THE OTHER,YES. THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE OF THE DUMBEST IDEA I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. GOOD JOB.

It's too late to worry about candy in Rx bottles. Vitamins and other medicines for children have been made to appear and taste like candy for 50 years!!!!!!!!

Apparently, the person who thought up this idea was probably taking the meds that were once inside the bottles, when he/she decided to fill it up with candy.

When they put out the candy in the pill bottles they weren't looking to encourage kids and teens to do drugs. They just didn't look at the cons. Some of you people are trying to turn a normal pharmaceudical company into monsters.

Also, Teenagers won't take this as it being "okay" to pop pills. By the time they are of the age, teenagers are full aware of what they are doing. They don't need an advertising gimmick to make up their minds to do drugs. Generally they do them to get the attention of their parents and the people around them or to forget their troubles. Neither of these problems will be changed by bottled pills. It's like blaming heavy metal for teenage suicide. It just doesn't make sense.

However, i can see how it can be confusing to smaller children, which brings me to the point, lock up your perscriptions or put them where you know for sure they can't be reached by your toddlers.

1. Very Dumb idea
2. Dont dis west virginians, dis the company!
3. KNOW THIS, Drugs actually cant help you. it only helps say 20 - 30 % leaving you addicted and the fda having you dependent on them.
4. natural remedies? too much of anything is bad!
5. doctors, pharmacies, and the people making the drugs are all friends.. u're screewed.
6. grow u own food, make your own juice, do your own research.
7. everything out there is just for your money, not to help you.
8. dont listen tome either. do your own research! its a sick world. sick people and disappointing facts!

The candy in prescription bottles was a very poorly thought out marketing ploy. One good thing is that it has all of us discussing the problem of drugs. Those who say children should be taught by their parents are right. Parents need to talk to their children and lead by example. Not all children listen, however. Some of the comments were written by people who must not have listened to their teachers. Were they bad teachers? Probably not, but many students chose not to listen and learn. Just because a parent teaches does not mean a subject will be learned. Unless you have children you have raised to adulthood, you have no right to spout off about parents. Most of us do the best we can.

im eating out of a bottle right now

I honestly don't think this was a bad idea.. It was just for fun and to put smiles on people's faces and they turn it in to something bad.. I bet the same people complaining ate the candy.. Come on people!! There are bigger issues than this going on in the world... I am 15 and think that any teenager or yet alone an adult that is bold enough to take prescription pills knowing they don't need them deserves whatever they get!!

Everyone should just chill. I don't hear anyone trying to get rid of alcohol because there kid expired from alcohol poisioning or swallowing their own vomit and suffocating. Half the time you cant even get that stupid child safety lid off any prescrition or OTC drugs. If your kid can reach your medicine cabinet, that is not locked probably, and open the "candy" then they are not taught correctly. Be open and honest and tell your kids to not touch the stuff in the medicine cabinet & never take medicine that doesn't have name on it. I seriously doubt that a child is the problem... its your teens. They need your help and guidance. They need to hear you speak to them. When's the last time you talked to them?
Instead of blaming others how about re-evaluating your lifestyle. Consider the movies you watch, beverage you drink, and even your words. How many kids commit suicide over what was said to them?

Jimmy-Mommy, what's this?
Mother-Well Jimmy, that's the candy Mommy uses when she can't sleep well.
Jimmy-So then it's like magical candy?
Mother-Sorta, but I don't want you eating any of it, okay?
Jimmy-Okay.
*25 minutes later*
Jimmy-Mommy!
Mother-What is it Jimmy?
Jimmy-I feel ultra sleepy.
Mother-Jimmy did you eat those pills I told you not to?
Jimmy-Yes.
Mother-How many did you eat?
Jimmy-The whole bottle.
Mother-I am so going to sue our pharmacy!

Just another example of bad parenting in our country. The parents blame the pharmacy for throwing candy pills in bottles at a parade even though it's the parents' job to talk to their children about the dangers of some pills.

This was an innocent jester by the pharmacy. I wish that everyone would STOP blaming everyone else for their problems!! People don't realize that all this wining is creating a hassel for normal average people trying to enjoy a simple parade -- How much time & tax dollars are going to be spent in government trying to pass a law that candy or anything else can't be thrown at parades? Come on people -- GET A GRIP!! We as a nation could be spending more time trying to fix the economy. They are your children from the day that they are born -- which means, by the way, that they are your responsibility to teach, care for, & protect. Kids are mostly using parents rx -- not the guy on the corner !! Talk to your children - not blame everyone else!!

I want to start by saying, all you people saying it's the parents fault and to stop trying to find a company to blame, have no idea what you are talking about and are obviously not parents yourselves. A parent can teach their kids everything they possibly can, but that doesn't mean the teachings can't be interupted. In which I feel like this company took the chance of doing to these young children. Here's an example of what I mean..If a child is in a split home and the mother teaches one thing then goes to the fathers house and he teaches another, well then that child will become confused and start thinking of a way to figure out the truth themselves cause they trust both parents and don't know what ot think about the situation..now here with the drugs and the candy posing as drugs, you have the parents teaching kids that they are bad and not to ever do, but then here comes candy in a bottle that makes it look good and safe(its just candy after all), now the children are confused and might be thinking well which is it? GOOD or BAD? So how are they gonna try to find out, well one is to just try it for themselves and it might not hurt them but they grow to be addicts...so if you're not a parent shut up and mind your business, you have no right to even comment as far as i'm concerned..so to the pharmacy, good job at being a promoter of drug use, being a liabilty, and also being an enabeler. This pharmacy should be shut down and who ever participated in anyway including the idea should never be allowed to work around this stuff again or with children...

It just goes to show, whether it be major Banks, Wall Street CEO's or high level Execs of any Company. Being at the top doesn't make you any smarter than those that work at the bottom. In fact, the person who thought up this "marketing" idea is sending the message to children that it is OK and FUN to eat "candy" that comes in prescription bottles. Half these little kids could run right to their parents medicine cabinet when thay get home. What a completely thoughtless and potentionally FATAL marketing ploy! I would think that there could be legal problems for them as well.

You people get a life. Oh my God, what kind of message is this sending to the poor little children. What if they go onto stronger drugs like marijuana instead of being out of it on valium every day like their misguided parents.

It was West Virginia for crying out loud. There is a very shallow gene pool there and everyone is wearing water wings.

It's this kind of ignorance that makes it necessary for our coffee cups to say "CAUTION Contents HOT!" on the side. DUH! If our society doesn't stop catering and sympathizing to its most ignorant, this politically correct age will never end. I'm sure all the good things this pharmacy and physician's office does for their community is overlooked and 'non-newsworthy' but this is what everyone here wants to talk about? These businesses should wise up and do what other big business has done and continues to do---concentrate on profits by increasing quantity and decreasing quality. For some reason, I doubt these businesses will be in the parade next year due to backlash and that is sad. I just hope they don't discontinue other services to their community as well.

Let me get this straight: Kids across the state were coming home finding pill bottles and pills lying around at home but not getting into them--BUT NOW the line is BLURRED and we all need to start educating and attacking pharmacies! I think that's right--ISN'T IT?

What a leap that has been made to make a comparison of the prescription drug abuse problems in this state and the act of distributing candy in a bottle similar to a prescription bottle. Those abusing prescription drugs know EXACTLY what they want (from size, shape, lettering and numbering on the medications--down to the manufacturer of the drug). The ignorance shown by a community that thinks this and the drug abuse problems in this state are related or even on the same scale is ridiculous and only shows how far we are behind controlling the real problems. Prescription drug abuse feeds off the ignorance of people that have the drugs AFTER getting it home from the pharmacies and hospitals. I don't agree with distributing candy in pill bottles--but to relate it to the growing drug abuse in this state--not even in the same realm. Dodie Rhodes' son was nineteen and abused Fentenyl patches--far cry from candy in a pill bottle. Her time and efforts could be better served!

I guess you missed the day on prepositions.

Where did they go to school at?
Posted by: deanna at July 10, 2009 6:35 AM

I was at the parade so let me first begin by telling what the news has left out just so everything is clear. The float wasn't throwing the candy filled pill bottles around like crazy to just any takers--they were handed to adults and children coming up to the float with their parents. The float had large amounts of loose, free candy given to small children. The candy itself was not jelly beans or smarties or the like but wrapped tootsie rolls and super bubble bubble gum. The 'prescription bottle' which was bright blue with a flip top lid, read "Come see us at our new location in town....Fast, Friendly Service". This is our only locally owned pharmacy and the only one that delivers if you can't come in to pick up your medications, the only one that compounds (mixes special formulas of medications from raw materials), the only one that participated in the parade. There was another company in the parade passing out candy filled pill bottles (unwrapped Smarties) but this company (Allied Health) was not newsworthy for some reason. The local news was contacted by Tammy Casto--not from this area; she is from Kanawha county about an hour away. Dodie Rhodes is a member of Jackson County Anti-Drug Coalition whose nineteen yr old son died of an overdose on Fentanyl patches. Yes, she was a member before her son overdosed but has become more active afterward.
Ripley, WV is a small town and of course everybody knows everybody. Most everyone in this county supports this pharmacist as they know there was no malicious intent and enjoyed seeing their float in the parade. You can read posts on WSAZ.com (our local news affiliate) to judge for yourself.