This past weekend on Father's Day, a man robbed a Melford, NY pharmacy at gunpoint. Police believe his motive was to steal narcotic painkillers. The robber killed two pharmacy employees and two pharmacy customers. This was an extremely brutal crime over some pills. Some pills. Really. I find this terrifying. A man probably addicted to prescription drugs or a street supplier to those addicted to prescription drugs had the audacity to not only rob a pharmacy at gunpoint but to also make sure that there were not witnesses to his crime.
This one story disturbs me but I found something more alarming. I did a google search of "man robs a pharmacy" . 431,000 results were found. The entire first page was filled with stories of men robbing pharmacies with guns, knives, and other deadly weapons all in the past year. To be fair, I also did a search of "woman robs pharmacy". Nearly 400,000 results.
Prescription drug abuse is not hiding. Its out in the open putting innocent people in harms way.
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