A mum has been left furious after a pharmacist gave her daughter the wrong prescription drugs.
Sharon Brown said her daughter Darrolle, who has a learning disability, picked up her prescribed painkillers from a Boots store in Brighton.
Darrolle, 29, noticed the bright yellow box was different to normal - but had the right label - and called her mother in a panic.
Horrified Sharon, 53, said she told Darrolle, who lives in a residential care home, not to take any of the pills because they could make her seriously ill.
Boots has since apologised and said it has taken "appropriate action" following an investigation.
Sharon said her daughter is given co-dydramol - a painkiller used to treat aches and pains including headaches, migraines, muscular and joint pain, period pain and toothache - because she gets frequent pain in her back after having two blood clots near her lungs.
But she was given dihydrocodeine, a narcotic painkiller.
Heavily tattooed Sharon, who once appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show, said: "She rang me up and told me the label on the box was right, but the actual tablets were totally different.
"When I saw them my eyes nearly fell out of their sockets.
"You could see that they were completely wrong, but it had been signed off on both sides of the box.
"Thank the lord she rang me and said 'Mum, I've got a problem', because she could have easily taken them.
"I told her 'whatever you do, do not take any'. I was in horror and I was really worried it could have caused her harm."
The mum, who uses crutches because she suffers from osteoarthritis, added: "A mix-up with drugs could have made her seriously ill.
"Imagine if it was someone who was blind or another person with a learning disability, they would have taken them.
"They offered to swap them but I said 'how can I trust you after what has happened'.
"I know it is a complicated thing but professionals should not be getting this wrong, not when they have clearly signed off on it.
"I wanted to highlight it because errors like this should not be made, especially when you can see it has been signed off by a pharmacist, it's scary. I want to protect my daughter and other people from things like this in the future."
A Boots UK spokesman responded to the claims, saying: "We would like to offer our sincere apologies to the patient.
"At Boots UK, we treat any incident involving a risk to patient safety with the utmost importance.
"An investigation into this incident has been conducted and appropriate action taken to reinforce compliance with our standard operating procedures to reduce the risk of any repetition.
"We have reached out to the patient to offer additional support and information, as well as the outcome of this investigation if needed."
