Most of the news stories, including one in the New York Post, opened with trick-or-treaters getting a startling surprise in their Halloween baskets and bags, after visiting a local pharmacy on October 31.
The incident started innocently enough when a woman came in to pick up the prescription medication for her son. On the way out, the lady accidentally dropped the medicine on the floor, apparently not knowing she had dropped the package. The seven pills were individually-wrapped in blister-packs.
A well-meaning customer, as the story goes in the Inquisitr, picked up the package and laid it on the pharmacy counter. From there, it was assumed that a pharmacy employee noticed the individually-wrapped pills, and thinking they were candy placed them in the treat basket nearby.
How did the incident escalate? Perhaps the woman who had picked up the medication got home and realized she had lost it, or maybe she came back into the store looking for the lost package. We don’t really know if the pills were placed in the treat basket and handed out to children looking for candy.
On Halloween night, CBC News quoted Constable Melissa Cliche of the Quebec City police. In talking about the pills being put in the treat basket, she said, “So, unfortunately, we don’t know how, an employee just mixed it with the candy by accident and distributed it to the kids,”
The police also said that the bi-polar pills weren’t dangerous and at the worst, could produce some minor side-effects such as trembling, nausea and drowsiness.
According to an update published by CBC News about one hour after the initial story came out on October 31, 2015, the bi-polar medicine was found, and no medication had been ingested by any children.
