A tamper-resistant pill and/or capsule dispenser for attachment to an electronic control and communication unit including inter alia, an electric actuator mechanism, a microprocessor, a graphical user interface and a communications unit, the dispenser including sensors operative under control of said electronic control and communication unit to monitor and dispense prescribed dosages of medications or vitamin supplements in pill and/or capsule form and help control, track and maintain a record of pills and/or capsules dispensed to a patient to ensure that the dispensed product is not improperly removed from or replaced in the dispenser, said dispenser comprising:a generally cylindrical housing having an open top, and a generally closed bottom, except for a pill dispensing opening formed in a lower side portion of the cylindrical housing； a cylindrical sleeve open at its top end and closed at its bottom end, said sleeve being eccentrically disposed within said cylindrical housing and away from the side of said cylindrical housing having said pill dispensing opening, said sleeve being affixed at its bottom end to the bottom end of said cylindrical housing and having an open, longitudinally extending slot formed in the side thereof opposite said pill dispensing opening； an axially rotatable cylinder disposed within said housing, said cylinder having a helical indented groove formed in the outer cylindrical surface thereof, said groove extending from a point proximate an upper end of said cylinder to a point proximate a lower end of said cylinder, said groove being adapted to slidably carry pills and/or capsules to be sequentially passed through said first pill exiting aperture, said axially rotatable cylinder having a coupling socket formed in its upper end for driving engagement with said electric actuator mechanism: and a tubular slide slidably disposed about said sleeve and carrying a pill pin for slidably engaging pills and/or capsules disposed in said helical inde
