GLP, i need some advice regarding possible theft. *updated aug 9*

here's a backstory - my father is a paraplegic. he takes pain medication daily to deal with the pain in his back, and his muscle spasms. one of his pain pills, is a narcotic. he recently had surgery, and has had PSWs (personal support workers) coming to the house a few times a day. we have 2 here at a time to help him with transferring in and out of bed, since he cant sit up in his chair for more than a few hours at a time until he's healed.

my dad keeps all his medications that he needs while in bed, in separate containers, and all the containers are in a plastic dish. tonight, again, his pill container that has his narcotic in it, was not with the other pills. this is at least the 3rd time its happened. there have been other occasions lately that these particular pills have not been where they're supposed to be. i've even told my dad to make sure the girls arent losing those pills in the room somewhere, since he needs them, and will have issues without them. they're the kind of med that you can only get so many pills for so many days.

tonight, it clicked to me (and i admit, it took longer than it should've for me to make this connection), that its a bit suspicious that its always the container of narcotics that seems to be going astray. tonight, they were less than 2 feet away from the spot where his other pills were sitting. so why the hell werent those ones in the dish with the rest of his meds? we're concerned that one of the PSWs might be taking some of his pills. we decided to hide all the pills from view, with the exception of the pill bottle that he keeps near the bed. that container will have no more than a few pills in it, enough for 1 day. we counted the number of pills in the other containers before hiding them.

the girls that have been coming to the house lately, are all pretty new. we havent had this issue before now, because we only had 1 PSW coming per day, in the morning to get him up, and its always the same girl during the week, and 1 other girl that comes on the weekends. so i do think its possible that one of these new girls is taking pills.

my question is, what exactly do we do now? we've counted, hid things, made a log of the date, the people who were here today, etc. do we just wait for the time being and see what happens? should we tell anyone that we're a bit suspicious, or wait until something else happens? i just dont know what to do, or where to go from here, because this just isnt something we've had to deal with before.

thank you for your help :)

Last Edited by The*Flipside on 08/09/2016 10:28 PM