INDIANAPOLIS — Pharmacies are disappearing across the country, including here in central Indiana.
Last week, we learned Walgreens is closing about 1,200 locations nationwide. The trend of closures is impacting access to often life-saving medications.
“She’s been on these medications for years, so she depends on it,” said Anthony Beverly.
WRTV He regularly picks up his grandma’s prescription since she can no longer drive, but recent pharmacy closures have made it harder.
“They keep closing locations and I have to keep going out further and further picking up medication for her,” he said.
In the past few years, he’s had to bounce around to several different pharmacies.
WRTV He used to go to the CVS on 29 th and Lafayette Road which now sits abandoned on the city’s west side.
The closure is part of a larger trend across the city and the country.
“We saw Rite-Aid filed for bankruptcy recently,” said Darren Covington, the Executive Director of the Indiana Pharmacy Association . “There’s a number of independent pharmacies across the state that have closed in the last few years.”