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...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b as well as birth-control pills, she said.

When she refilled her contraceptives on Nov.

7, the DUR was attached to the bag.

Reading the slur prompted a panic attack, she said.

"I started crying and I ran to the drawer to get a pill to calm down," she said.

"I talked to my psychiatrist.

All my fears came out.

Everything I always thought came out - that nobody likes me and everybody talks about me." Initially too embarrassed and humiliated to confront anyone about it, Cutler said she avoided the store where the entry was made.

Then in February her doctor called in a prescription to the store, but it would be weeks before Cutler could get it because the pharmacy repeatedly told her they didn't have it, according to the lawsuit.

When Cutler finally went into the store on March 14 she discovered that the initials B.D.A.

were those of head pharmacist Adams.

She confronted Adams, she said, but he told her someone must have used his initials to somehow log into the system.

"But then he admitted that you needed a password to get in ...

and he blew me off and walked away," said Cutler, who now uses another pharmacy chain.

"This is the pharmacy that America trusts, that's their slogan.

The trust is gone.

It shrunk me down and took away some of the work I've put into [managing] my illness." Missy Stoddard can be reached at mstoddard@sun-sentinel.com or 561-228-5505.

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