Drug addict arrested for attempting to cheat pharmacy twice

[Wei Yan]

Drug addict arrested for attempting to cheat pharmacy twice
By Zul Othman, TODAY | Posted: 29 September 2010 0640 hrs
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SINGAPORE: A drug addict was so desperate for sedatives that he tried to cheat the same pharmacy twice on the same day.

On March 31 last year, cleaner Mujib Rahman Samsudeen, 38, scribbled in a request for dormicum onto his National University Hospital (NUH) prescription in an attempt to cheat pharmacist, Ms Kee Li Peng.

He was arrested when she realised that the ink used was different from that used by the doctor who wrote the prescription.

On April 2 while out on bail, he again tried to cheat another pharmacist at Guardian Pharmacy at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre.

He altered the date of a previous prescription to get more dormicum. But his doctor confirmed that Mujib had not been prescribed the drug.

Undaunted, Mujib returned to the pharmacy that evening and produced an NUH prescription. But he was exposed again and was arrested.

In mitigation, his lawyer Sunil Sudheesan said his client suffers from alcohol and drug dependency and had undergone treatment for his addictions.

District Judge Wong Li Tien said she wanted a progress report on Mujib's treatment and adjourned the case to November 16. - TODAY