I am the sole care giver (aside from my husbands loving help) for my 85 year old Grandfather and was also the caregiver to my grandmother Proir to her passing... and I can tell you for the last 6 years we have had our share of falls, sudden onset of illness etc.. none which required Acute care as in a Hospital stay but an ER visit late at night requiring MEDICATION or even just ice packs, bandages, Proper cold medications for persons with heart related illnesses so Oh yes there is a need a BIG need for the pharmacies to remain open 24 hours a day.. The real answer here is not to lock away and hide from the issues and problems.... how about finding these people BEFORE they slip through all the buerocratic cracks held together by tons of red tape to many people pretend they are ostriches and stick their heads in the sand about these issues already like we need anyone else to suggest more do the same.....

Yes we do need those pharmacys open. Look at all the robberies that happen in mid afternoon at local banks... are you suggesting we should close them too?
That particular pharmacy is where the HOSPITAL sends all their patients for perscriptions who get discharged at that time of night...
I mean that just wasn't a very smart, or logic statement..

is that Pharmacy open at that hour? We no longer live in the mid '60 where there was need to remain open 24hrs aday. That's right, all otc med are now behind the counter! That law is not stopping a thing. They just go one store to another and buy the cold med to make enough Meth. And coming our way soon; a new method of making Meth that doesn't require a large quanity of cold med's. My point: close dn 24hr pharmacy's. Sad to say, but the majority of young people are on this stuff nowadays.

Now there is a Person on the edge!! "Nothing else to lose"those are strong words that mean something. Wonder what his catalyst was?? what event triggered this this? this is obviosly an individual addicted to "something" I would start looking at Methadone clinics... maybe for persons turned away for whatever reason, or someone that just stopped going... he was very specific about which medications he wanted Xanax is not a pain medication though it is for anxiety, it is very strong as is the Pain medication oxy... This makes a person wonder is he addicted to these specific drugs? is he a pt of a pain mgt Physician in the area?? Is he a regular to area ER's looking for pain medications... This story just hit me, makes me feel for this person. This person is really on the edge here with over 30,000 persons dieing by suicide each year and suicide being the nations # 11 killer it might make one think this person needs help. I hope the next story we hear about this case is not person found "death by overdose" things like this make me wonder how many cracks did this person fall through before they hit the bottom like this.... No I am not turning soft I still say he needs to be held accountable and punished but he also needs help...