Here's How Many Pain Pills Beverly Hills Pharmacies Receive

BEVERLY HILLS, CA — A new report shows billions of painkillers flowed through nearly 83,000 pharmacies across the country, including many in Beverly Hills. 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 197 pharmacies within five miles of Beverly Hills received 82,863,640 pills from 2006 to 2012.

Here’s what the database found for the individual pharmacies in Beverly Hills:

RITE AID

• 300 NORTH CANON DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS CA 90210
• Pills received: 1,452,760

THE PRESCRIPTION CENTER

• 9730 WILSHIRE BLVD SUITE 103 AND 114 BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212
• Pills received: 1,255,120

GARFIELD PRESCRIPTION PHARM

• 9400 BRIGHTON WAY BEVERLY HILLS CA 90210
• Pills received: 1,113,700

A & M GROSS INC

• 433 N ROXBURY DR BEVERLY HILLS CA 90210
• Pills received: 823,000

ROXSAN PHARMACY INC

• 465 N ROXBURY DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS CA 90210
• Pills received: 879,400

MICKEY FINE PHARMACY

• 433 N ROXBURY DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS CA 90210
• Pills received: 32,630

WILSHIRE-ROXBURY MED PHCY

• 436 N ROXBURY DR BEVERLY HILLS CA 90210
• Pills received: 117,900

RITE AID

• 463 NORTH BEDFORD DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS CA 90210
• Pills received: 266,680

ALAN SCHWAB PHARMACY

• 435 NORTH BEDFORD DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS CA 90210
• Pills received: 193,400

CAMDEN CLINICAL ARTS PHARMACY

• 414 NORTH CAMDEN DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS CA 90210
• Pills received: 69,600

GARFIELD BEACH CVS

• 9045 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD BEVERLY HILLS CA 90211
• Pills received: 915,700

HERBERT'S PHARMACY

• 9001 WILSHIRE BLVD SUITE 101 BEVERLY HILLS CA 90211
• Pills received: 638,000

HOUSE OF MEDICINE

• 9025 WILSHIRE BLVD SUITE 200 BEVERLY HILLS CA 90211
• Pills received: 582,400

E & S WINESTOCK

• 8920 WILSHIRE BLVD 108 BEVERLY HILLS CA 90211
• Pills received: 408,040

MILART PHARMACY INC

• 300 S BEVERLY DRIVE STE 100 BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212
• Pills received: 439,070

ROBERTSON RX

• 250 N ROBERTSON BLVD 107 BEVERLY HILLS CA 90211
• Pills received: 759,450

G&L PHARMACY INC

• 9101 W OLYMPIC BLVD UNIT A B BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212
• Pills received: 821,310

OLYMPIC BLVD PHARMACY INC

• 8950 W OLYMPIC BLVD BEVERLY HILLS CA 90211
• Pills received: 382,400

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.