Recent pharmacy thefts raise concerns about addiction and street drug sales
It’s a disturbing trend–robbers targeting several local CVS pharmacies around Indianapolis. Police say cash isn’t the motive. Instead, thieves are going after powerful narcotics. Just this week, police released photos of a young boy about 10 or 11-years-old robbing a CVS store. He handed over a note requesting very specific drugs. In most cases IMPD believe the drugs land in the hands of street dealers. According to the Drug Enforcement Association, Indiana is number two in the country for pharmacy robberies. Thursday morning IMPD arrested a woman after she was accused of robbing a CVS on the southwest side. She was found with a robbery note and a variety of prescription drugs. Experts say another motivation behind this trend could be people fueling addictions and pharmacies are the perfect target.
INDIANA is the 16th most populated state in the country and the 38th largest state by area… Heroin use/abuse/deaths are going up exponentially and ranks at or near the top for meth labs busts and increasing.. and Indiana’s AG Greg Zoeller .. implemented his BITTER PILL website a couple of years ago.. and is being sued by the ACLU for requiring all people taking opiates for more than 90 consecutive days to have urine tests.. Something about violating the 4th Amendment of unreasonable search and seizure… If Zoeller is trying to obtain a higher public profile to run for higher office.. I wonder how all of this is working for him ?
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Wait, the aclu sued this guy for making patients take urine tests every 90 days????why has,nobody been,sued for making the rest of us have then every 30days?!?!?
The prescriber can establish whatever office policy he/she wants.. you don’t want to comply.. find a new prescriber.. The GOVERNMENT can’t legally tell you that you have to have a urine test for the prescriber to be able to provide you opiates. Because in INDIANA neither you nor the prescriber has any choice but to do urine tests… Because the government holds the prescriber’s right to practice medicine in the state via licensing.. if the prescriber fails to comply.. they can lose their right to earn a living in the state.
They dont really prove anything. Anything can affect the test
Because the docs can write for 3 x 30 day CIi rxs in IN and put dates to be filled on #2 & #3 and patient returns for follow up appts every 90 days. I cant believe those CVS employees didnt jump the 11yo…he’d been easy to take down..A good shot of pepper spray to his face would have taugjt him a lesson..gimme a break. I work as a parent volunteer in the local middle and HS. Deal with punks like him in middle school now and then. If its bad enough we do have off duty police. Yeah im armchair quartebackimg but an 11yo thug is easier to disarm than a 200+lb thug…throw somthing hard enough at him and take him out. Until the job allow staff to CC or outright fight back on the job this will continue