A 23-year-old Florida man is facing charges after police say he handed pharmacy employees a note demanding a laundry list of prescription drugs, including Viagra.
The pharmacist technician who dealt with the suspect said she didn't realize the store was being robbed at first and kept asking him routine questions -- while he kept telling her to read the note, according to Law & Crime.
Mounting demand for Novo Nordisk-made Ozempic and Wegovy has fueled a rise of illegal sales of the weight-loss drugs in Denmark, where the pharma giant is based, the Danish Medicines Agency reported.
Cops believe dozens of mills are running at any one time in grimy apartments with blacked-out windows. Traffickers have thrown drugs at cops during raids.
"He was so damaged. For most of his career he was fighting a disease," said an insider of Perry's decades-long struggles with drugs and alcohol. "He probably felt like he was incapable of being loved."
A recent boom in psychedelic research has given way to a bumper crop of startups seeking to harness the potential of mind-altering drugs for treating depression, addiction and other conditions.