According to the DEA, there were almost 700 armed pharmacy robberies involving controlled substances in the U.S. in 2010 — an almost 80 percent increase from 2006. Pharmacy robberies were also high during the crack epidemic in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Howard Levine, the owner of Belmont Drugs and Surgical in West Babylon, N.Y., told the New York Times he has experienced two armed in the past 14 months and just wants to “get out of here alive every day.”
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