Here's How Many Pain Pills Odenton, Severn Pharmacies Receive

ODENTON-SEVERN, MD — A new report shows billions of painkillers flowed through nearly 83,000 pharmacies across the country, including many in Odenton and Severn. A previously unreleased database managed by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration logged where roughly 70 billion pills containing oxycodone and hydrocodone were shipped to, The Washington Post reported recently.

While the database doesn’t specify what happened after the pharmacies received the shipments, it does illuminate the sheer number of pills that flooded communities. The data includes numbers from 2006 to 2012, the Post reported. Chain and retail pharmacies were included.

Here’s what the database found for the individual pharmacies:

FOOD LION DBA FOOD LION PHARMACY, 8741 PINEY ORCHARD PKWY ODENTON MD 21113

320,540 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012

About enough for one pill per year for each of the 25,247 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy

WEIS PHARMACY #70, 2294 BLUE WATER BLVD ODENTON MD 21113

208,400 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012

About enough for Less than one pill per year for each of the 43,283 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy

RITE AID, 1132 ANNAPOLIS ROAD ODENTON MD 21113

683,390 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012

About enough for three pills per year for each of the 29,690 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy

THE GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY

1155 ANNAPOLIS ROAD ODENTON MD 21113

483,030 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012.
About enough for two pills per year for each of the 28,825 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy.

THE GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC, 1155 ANNAPOLIS ROAD ODENTON MD 21113

483,030 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012

About enough for two pills per year for each of the 28,825 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy

MARYLAND CVS PHARMACY
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY

2600 ANNAPOLIS RD SEVERN MD 21144

1,102,900 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012.
About enough for two pills per year for each of the 53,583 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy.

MARYLAND CVS PHARMACY
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY

7851 TELEGRAPH RD SEVERN MD 21144

1,808,400 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012.
About enough for six pills per year for each of the 39,694 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy.

MARYLAND CVS PHARMACY, 7851 TELEGRAPH RD SEVERN MD 21144

1,808,400 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012

About enough for six pills per year for each of the 39,694 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy

MARYLAND CVS PHARMACY, 7851 TELEGRAPH RD SEVERN MD 21144

1,808,400 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012

About enough for six pills per year for each of the 39,694 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy

WAL-MART PHARMACY 10-1875, 407 GEORGE CLAUSS BLVD SEVERN MD 21144

1,635,240 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012

About enough for four pills per year for each of the 51,443 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy

SAM'S PHARMACY 10-4771, 424 GEORGE CLAUSS BLVD SEVERN MD 21144

383,600 pills were shipped to this pharmacy between 2006 and 2012

About enough for one pill per year for each of the 47,616 people who live within five miles of this pharmacy.

Five pharmacies in Kentucky, Illinois, Idaho and Kansas received the most painkillers per person each year, the Post found. With a total of nearly 6.8 million pills, Shearer Drug in Clinton County, Kentucky, saw the most pills per person per year at 96.

Areas deluged with pain pills saw far higher death rates related to opioids, the Post found. While the national rate was 4.6 deaths per 100,000 residents, counties that received the most pain pills per person saw rates that were more than three times higher.

Perhaps the most startling finding was that just 15 percent of pharmacies received nearly half of the pain pills.

According to the latest provisional data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were nearly 68,000 drug overdose deaths in the United States last year, a 5 percent decline from 2017. The agency predicted that number will rise to more than 680,000 once all data is reported to them.

In its previous report in July, the Post said 75 percent of the pills distributed in the seven-year period came from six companies with pharmacies: McKesson Corp., Walgreens, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, CVS and Walmart. Four other companies were identified by the paper as being among the top 10 distributors of opioids: Smith Drug Co., Rite Aid, Kroger and H.D. Smith.

Patch national staffers Dan Hampton and Feroze Dhanoa contributed to this report.