While I agree that 2 hours is a long time to wait, especially for pain medication, there was a way around it. Tooth extraction is typically a scheduled procedure. Your dentist could have given you the prescription ahead of time, so that the medication could be at home right after the procedure. He or she could have handed the written prescription to your husband, so he could at least drop off while your tooth was being extracted. The dentist could have phoned it in or faxed it over to Kroger's before you left the office.

As for not handing back your 4 pills--they can't. They'd have no way to know if those pills had been tampered with. You should have taken those pills out of the bottle before you handed it over.

Doesn't Kroger's offer automatic refills for monthly prescriptions like those you and your husband have? We have some of ours on auto-refill; for my son's migraine medication, we just call in, press a few numbers, and it's ready for us.

And, by the way--my daughter had all 4 wisdom teeth removed,at the same time, in August. Two had to be broken up(I forget the term). We were told to just give her large doses of ibuprofen. She didn't even get one or two high-level pain pills.