The contradictions of our pill-popping ways…
Posted in Medication Nation on 19 March 2010
EXPERTS SAY A $75 MILLION pharmaceutical bounty stolen from an Eli Lilly and Company warehouse last weekend are more likely to make their way to Internet pharmacies or overseas black markets than to U.S. chain pharmacies, which keep close tabs on their supply chains …
Posted in Medication Nation on 18 March 2010
IN AN Ocean’s Thirteen–STYLE heist at an Eli Lilly and Company distribution center in Enfield, Conn., thieves made off with $75 million of pharmaceuticals over the weekend. Braving a raging storm, the perps scaled a brick wall, cut a hole in the warehouse ceiling, rappelled inside, disabled an alarm, and spent at least an hour loading pallets of drugs into a vehicle at a loading dock. This latest in a rising wave of warehouse burglaries, experts say, is the biggest in drug industry history …
