Recent opioid-related killings at a Long Island pharmacy underscore the refusal of another Long Island pharmacy to dispense any oxycodone products since last year, according to a report by Newsday.
Four people were killed at pharmacy in Medford, N.Y., by a gunman who was allegedly stealing more than 10,000 hydrocodone pills. Twelve miles away, Tomkin's Pharmacy-Health Care in nearby Hauppauge, N.Y., has a sign on its door, "This pharmacy no longer stocks oxycodone/OxyContin products."
Owner Daryl Tomkin put the sign up in early 2010, after experiencing two armed robberies within weeks of each other. He said physicians are now prescribing too many opioids. A drug that was once only used for cancer patients is now being used for people with back and other aches, he said.
Read the Newsday report on opioids.
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