A pharmacy technician discovers that her employer regularly has been dispensing large amounts of a Schedule II amphetamine to an obviously overweight individual. The prescription is allegedly for control of a rare hyperactivity disorder. However, the technician knows that both the prescribing doctor and her employer’s business partner have a financial
interest in a local weight loss clinic. The technician asks her employer about this and is told to mind her own business and get back to work. That legal and ethical obligations do you think that this situation might place on the technician? What is the technician’s responsibility under the “Code of Ethics”? What risk does the technician run if she reports this matter to the state board of pharmacy? What would you do in this situation?