Here's How Many Painkillers Northport Pharmacies Receive

NORTHPORT, NY — Billions of painkillers flowed through nearly 83,000 pharmacies across the country, including many in Northport. 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 Monday.

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.

The database said 20 pharmacies within five miles of Northport received over 10 million pills from 2006 to 2012. The area has a population of about 73,000.

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

ASL PHARMACY CORP

517 A LARKFIELD RD, EAST NORTHPORT, NY 11731

Pills received: 1.2 million

CVS ALBANY
520 LARKFIELD ROAD, EAST NORTHPORT, NY 11731
Pills received: 1 million

CVS ALBANY

753 FORT SALONGA ROAD, NORTHPORT, NY 11768

Pills received: 1 million

WALGREENS

555 LARKFIELD RD, EAST NORTHPORT, NY 11731

Pills received: 450,800

RITE AID

577 LARKFIELD ROAD, EAST NORTHPORT, NY 11731

Pills received: 494,020

CVS ALBANY

2000 JERICHO TURNPIKE, EAST NORTHPORT, NY 11731

Pills received: 299,300

RITE AID PHARMACY #10636

1936 JERICHO TURNPIKE, EAST NORTHPORT, NY 11731

Pills received: 356,890

ATRIUM RX PHARMACY CORP

775 PARK AVENUE SUITE 155, HUNTINGTON, NY 11743

Pills received: 244,800

NORTHPORT CHEMISTS INC

100 MAIN STREET, NORTHPORT, NY 11768

Pills received: 283,520

THE STOP & SHOP SUPERMARKET

454 FORT SALONGA ROAD, NORTHPORT, NY 11768

Pills received: 454,210

RITE AID

395 FORT SALONGA ROAD, NORTHPORT, NY 11768

Pills received: 355,580

WALGREENS

820 FORT SALONGA RD, NORTHPORT, NY 11768

Pills received: 188,600

CVS ALBANY

10 3 FT SALONGA RD COUNTRY VILLAGE S C, NORTHPORT, NY 11768

Pills received: 717,330

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 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 staffer Feroze Dhanoa contributed to this report.