Eyewitness News found bags of personal information in dumpsters behind several drug stores. The medicines you take are between your doctor and your drug store. Or so you thought. In our Eyewitness News investigation, we found that a number of pharmacies are treating your secrets like yesterday's trash.
Pharmacies dispense pills and lots of paper.
That paper holds the secrets you share with your doctor and your pharmacist. But we found your personal information, in some cases, is treated like old trash. We found a clear plastic trash bag in the dumpster outside the Eckerd Drugs on Broad Street in Durham. And we found someone's prescription for Viagra. We showed the information we found to one of the patients who gets prescriptions from this store.