you don t understand, i understand. i know what they re going through, and i don t want them to go through that. i want them to have their little brother. and you know what, some of the people i work with, they are the little brother. and it s a scourge on our society. last year, more people in utah died from prescription pill overdoses than car accidents. more little brothers and sisters, more dads and mothers. this is a new kind of drug war. and the front line is the neighborhood pharmacy. are you surprised that pain pill abuse is so rampant in this
sisters, more dads and mothers. this is a new kind of drug war. and the front line is the neighborhood pharmacy. are you surprised that pain pill abuse is so rampant in this state? i am a little surprised, just because there is such a large religious community here in utah, but i think that people try to find some type of validation through their doctors that prescription pain medication isn t considered illegal drugs or illicit drug use. is there a typical profile of someone who you think is using drugs? there s not. a lot of times it s how they act. if they get nervous. if we look for patients that go really far away from home. patients tend to go to pharmacies where we don t know them. have you had those red flags raised often? yes. at least a couple times a week. utah is fighting back against the problem, hard. their new regulations on prescribing pills and new ways
to go through that. i want them to have their little brother. and you know what, some of the people i work with, they are the little brother. and it s a scourge on our society. last year, more people in utah died from prescription pill overdoses than car accidents. more little brothers and sisters, more dads and mothers. this is a new kind of drug war. and the front line is the neighborhood pharmacy. are you surprised that pain pill abuse is so rampant in this state? i am a little surprised just because there is such a large religious community here in
jon: fox news alert and breaking details on a court case involving a husband and wife charged with the massacre of four people inside a new york pharmacy. rick has more from the newsroom. rick. reporter: jon, maybe folks at home remember this horrible crime. it took place on father s day this year in a quiet community on long island in new york. a man walked into a neighborhood pharmacy on that sunday morning and literally executed four people, including the pharmacist and his assistant. surveillance video of the scene shows the shooter carrying out the killings quickly apparently without saying a word. after a three-day manhunt the investigation led police to this man, his name is david laper a recently unemployed former army officer facing charges of first degree degree murder and charges of stealing thousands of pills from the pharmacy. prosecutors not looking for the death penalty in this case, instead they want life with no possibility of parole, and his wife, melinda brady, she
danger of mixing up the medication. when people hear about robotic pharmacies they may think we don t need pharmacists anymore. well, in actuality, what we re doing is we re live annualing the pharmacists so they can spend more time in the hospital really focusing on the improvement in drug therapy. reporter: lynn paulson purchased this robotic equipment for the university of california san francisco hospital for $7 million. it s not at your neighborhood pharmacy yet but medical experts believe someday it will be. the robot gets its commands from a digital prescription pad from a doctor s orders entered into a computer database. from there, the machine plucks the pills one by one and packages them. twice a day we get an electronic feed of all of the doses for every patient in the hospital that needs to be filled. reporter: the equipment will even assemble and mix intravenous medicine which all about ensures products are just