Lasley v. Shrake's Country Club Pharmacy, Inc.

OPINION

McGREGOR, Acting Presiding Judge.

The various plaintiffs and intervenors (appellants) appeal from the trial court’s grant of a motion to dismiss in favor of Shrake’s Country Club Pharmacy, Inc. (Shrake’s). The trial court held that a pharmacy has no duty to warn either the customer or his physician that prolonged use of a prescription drug dispensed by the pharmacy or use of the drug in combination with another prescribed drug may lead to addiction or adverse side-effects. We hold that the pharmacy owed the customer a duty of reasonable care and that the trial court therefore erred in…