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LI's alarming pain pill addiction crisis

Following last year's fatal robbery in Medford, Hauppauge

Photo credit: Photo by John Paraskevas | Following last year's fatal robbery in Medford, Hauppauge pharmacist Daryl Tomkin installed a security system at his pharmacy, that requires customers to be buzzed in. (June 13, 2012)

The prescription drug-abuse epidemic on Long Island, starkly exposed by the execution of four people in the robbery of a small Medford pharmacy on Father's Day 2011, shows little sign of receding.

A year after David Laffer killed everyone inside Haven Drugs and fled with 10,000 opioid pain pills to feed his wife's habit and his own, the drugs continue to flood the Island in record amounts,...

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