THE man who was accidentally given Methadone instead of cough mixture at a Bacup chemists' has been found safe and well.
Police say the 74-year-old Waterfoot man, who does not wish to be identified, contacted them after reading of the mix-up in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.
Although he had taken some of the drug, a heroin substitute prescribed to drug addicts, he had suffered no particular ill effects.
The bottle has been handed to police who are carrying out inquiries into the incident.
An urgent appeal was launched by police shortly after the medicine bottle labelling mix-up was discovered at about 4pm on Wednesday when the man visited Richardson's chemists in St James Street, Bacup.
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