Ok so this might be a bit long but I really need some advice and I’m not really sure what to do so im hoping somebody will be able to give me a little bit of advice or something.
So a bit of background, I’ve been at the local hospital on part of a medical work placement. Just general stuff shadowing one of the doctors and sitting in for clinic, nothing that special really. So one day I’m at a nurses station and they’re doing some sort of drug count. They were counting out pills from each container and recording it all, but then one of the pager things went off and they had to go and see to it so she just said I’ll be back soon. I think she thought I was a medical student or something because she just left me there. Anyway so I was lookimg at the containers and one of them says something like morphine sulfate. Now my sister is disabled she has to use a wheelchair and has chronic back pain. The painkillers prescribed from the gp don’t really do anything to help the pain and she tried to get stronger ones but they didn’t do anything. She’s even used cannabis before and that has helped but small problem- it’s illegal. She’s often trying not to scream because she’s in so much pain.
Honestly I don’t know what came over me at that moment but I just grabbed the bottle and put it in my pocket and just hid it. When the nurse came back she quickly noticed but I pretended not to know it was gone. The police were then called as it was a fair amount and a controlled drug. they started asking people questions and stuff. When they asked me I said a man came up to the desk to ask for directions but I said I didn’t know and that maybe he took them without me knowing. This part did actually happen someone did come up shortly afterwards, so I just described them.
They then identified him on cctv downstairs and found his license plate and tracked him down. Today when I came to the hospital one of the nurses said police had confronted the man and asked him to come in for questioning. I’m really worried theyll find out. My sister has had some of the pills though and she said they’re really good and helping. I don’t know what to do should I just put it back where I found it or phone the police or something? I really regret doing this I know it was really stupid I don’t know what’s came over me or what happened at the time I just need some advice please