Recently, I was lucky to be chosen as one of the participants in a Post Graduate Course in Occupational Health and Safety. On our last day, one of the topics discussed to us was about drug and substance abuse. Our course coordinator and lecturer is a softspoken and kind doctor of medicine who told us that the subject was part of a commitment she made years ago in campaigning against illegal drugs.

During the lecture (and much to my embarassment), she commented on the laxity of pharmacists in our country in dispensing regulated drugs as compared with other countries where pharmacy laws are strictly implemented.

I learned later that 2 of my classmates in that course are pharmacists who are now doctors of medicine. So, I wonder if they are as embarrassed as I am with that comment.