A man who implied he was carrying a gun held up the pharmacy inside the Harvard Market’s second level Bartell’s Tuesday morning and made off with a bag full of methadone pills, according to police radio broadcasts.

Police searched the area around the drug store and near local methadone clinics after the 9:30 AM hold-up looking for a white male, tall and thin, with brown hair, a mustache and a goatee beard, and wearing a knit cap and a dark Navy-style pea coat.

According to the radio reports, the man demanded drugs in the hold-up and was given a plastic shopping bag full of methadone pills.

Methadone is typically used as a bridge drug to help addicts suffering from narcotic withdrawal — most commonly, heroin withdrawal.