Addicts putting pharmacies under siege, 1 robbed twice on same day

[Liberal_in_LA]

Addicts putting pharmacies under siege

June 3, 2011 7:58 a.m. EDT


Pharmacist arms himself against robbers


Pharmacy robberies are on the rise nationwide, according to RXPatrol, a tracking group


A single bottle of OxyContin can be sold for about $5,000


Less than two hours after picking out a man in a police lineup who held up his drugstore, pharmacist Mike Donohue was being robbed.

Again.

The new robber's face was hidden under the hood of a bulky black sweatshirt. He rocked back and forth anxiously, with his right hand planted in his pocket.

Like the other five robbers who had held up Donohue's store before, the man demanded OxyContin, a popular painkiller known for its high abuse potential.

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Instead of handing over the drugs, Donohue unholstered the Glock 19 handgun he wore beneath his white lab coat and sprinted to the front of the small pharmacy.

The pharmacist pointed the firearm loaded with 15 hollow-point rounds at the head of the hooded man.

"Down!" Donohue yelled.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/03/drugstore.robberies/

[wtbymark]

1. and anywhere in Europethese addict would get a free persciption

for heroin. I was in Belgium one night walking home with my girlfriend at 3am. 3 pretty burly, may I say, fairly frightening individuals approached us (in the US we would have been meat)they asked us where the nearest pharmacy was.

[Taverner]

2. Like I say, you gotta be crazy NOT to be on drugs these days...

[discocrisco01]

3. How Being Sober?

There are some of DUers in the program who have the 12 steps of the Fellowship to get us by.

[Taverner]

4. If it works for ya, then it works for ya

Just don't leave MY cake out in the rain

[provis99]

5. you know, if they would just sell these legal drugs to these addicts,

there wouldn't be any problem with robberies.