Letter: Better protection for small pharmacies
Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team closed off Merrick Road to gather more evidence outside of Charlie's Family Pharmacy. (Jan. 1, 2012) Credit: Kevin P. Coughlin
Small pharmacies shouldn't have to shoulder the obligation to protect themselves and their customers from desperate and dangerous drug abusers ["2 shot dead," News, Jan. 1].
Drugs like OxyContin should be available only at separate, guarded, government-supervised facilities, set up and funded by the companies that manufacture these drugs. It is unrealistic to suggest that a small pharmacy would have the capability to defend itself against these attacks, and it shouldn't have to. This situation has gone far beyond individual stores' responsibility.
Marie Brown, Baldwin
