Unlike most things, it started in Maine. A new disturbing trend in pharmacy shopping: armed pharmaceutical drug robbery. Over the last few years, as the New York Times recently reported, more than 1800 pharmacy robberies have occurred in the United States. The targets are standard heavy duty pain meds, such as OxyContin and Vicadin. Only instead of the customer being a teenager in a cast recovering from a skiing injury (or whatever else one gets injured doing in Maine), it is someone in a ski mask holding a gun demanding all your Oxy. As a result, many pharmacies have started stopped stocking OxyContin and other related meds, while others have considered even hiring armed security guards.
