Posted on 02/07/2012 6:55:16 PM PST by smokingfrog
A Long Island pharmacy is taking a high-tech approach in the fight against prescription drug theft.
New technology installed there makes robbing a bank seem like an easy task.
Authorities hope the beefed-up security catches on at pharmacies across the area, to prevent any more tragedies.
You could call it the drug store of the future.
"We're carrying the medications that nobody wants to carry," said Marc Wiener, co-owner of Linden Care.
But Syosset's Linden Care is more than a fantasyland of computerized pill counting and labeling machines, it's more like a fortress.
Co-owners Marc Wiener and Jordan Fogel call it a model for securing prescription narcotics and those who dispense them.
"We're able to go home at night knowing we're doing the right thing for ourselves and for our patients," Wiener said.
The security at Linden Care is like no other pharmacy.
First, you open this outer door and walk into a little vestibule.
They look at you through a camera, and only then, if they decide they're going to let you in, that's when they open the inner door.
You walk past an employee who's carrying a Glock 9 millimeter.
You have to do all of that, just to get to the waiting room.
If the precautions seem extreme, the owners say they simply have no choice.
People in their profession are now the number one target in an epidemic of crime.
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So, now the crooks know that it’s the go to place for narcotics.
Don’t have to rob the store, just rob the customers as they come out.
The guy with the Glock will shoot himself in the foot, to distract you until someone with a real gun shows up!
Ooops! That’s a good point.
(I’m worried about you. You think too much like a criminal.)
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