A drug addict tried to cheat the same pharmacy twice on the same day after getting desperate for sedatives.

In an attempt to cheat pharmacist, Kee Li Peng On March 31 last year, a 38-year-old cleaner Mujib Rahman Samsudeen, scribbled in a request for dormicum onto his National University Hospital (NUH) prescription.

After the pharmacist realizing that the prescription given contained a different ink than that was used by the doctor who wrote the prescription note, he was arrested.

Another pharmacist at Guardian Pharmacy at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre on April 2 was the one that Mujib while out on bail tried to cheat.

For getting more dormicum he altered the date of a previous prescription but it was confirmed by his doctor that Mujib had not been prescribed the drug.

Undaunted, Mujib was once again arrested after he was exposed after he returned to the pharmacy that evening and produced an NUH prescription.

His lawyer Sunil Sudheesan said I mitigation that his client had undergone treatment for his addictions as he suffers from alcohol and drug dependency.

The case was adjourned until November 16 after district Judge Wong Li Tien said she wanted a progress report on Mujib's treatment.