A recent story in the Wall Street Journal might be of interest to you. In it, the Journal reports on the theft of nursing home resident’s prescription drugs by a technician. The technician, Deborah Cleveland, worked at Heather Heights Assisted Living and Memory Care Facility, in Pittsford, New York. Apparently, she would steal resident’s prescription meds and substitute "similar looking pills in their place."
 
 

If you or a loved one is in an assisted living or nursing home and takes prescription medication, you have to be on the lookout for this type of activity. If you don’t feel like your medication is working like it should, talk to a physician and bring your medication bottle with you. Maybe the reason your medication isn’t having the desired effect is because it’s not actually your medicine at all…it is something totally different because someone stole your pills and replaced them with something else.