unSafeway

The Consumerist:

A pregnant woman in Colorado went to her local Safeway pharmacy to have her antibiotic prescription filled. But the medicine she ended up receiving was Methotrexate, a drug used in the treatment of cancer, but which can also be used for medical termination of pregnancy.

The woman, six-weeks pregnant with her first child, took some of the medicine under the assumption that it was the correct drug. But then she began feeling nauseous.

"I came back and I looked at the bottle and it wasn't my name," she said. "My doctor immediately told me to try and make myself vomit to see if I could get the medicine to come back up."

She immediately went to the hospital where she was given charcoal to absorb the Methotrexate, which had been intended for another Safeway customer with the same last name and a similar first name.

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