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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Iowa Nursing Home Nurse Sentenced for Stealing Patients' Pain Medication
2020-01-28
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Iowa Manchester, Iowa |
Nursing home (Manchester, IA) | Hydrocodone, morphine, oxycodone, codeine, tramadol | Took pills from 14+ patients by deception; diluted liquid morphine with mouthwash | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Jan 28, 2020 to 4 years | $593 (restitution) | source |
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Pennsylvania Physician Sentenced in Opioid Diversion Case (2020)
2020
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Pennsylvania Pennsylvania |
Physician (Pennsylvania) | Oxycodone, hydrocodone | Charge as worded in the source: health care fraud | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced (2020); terms are in the source | none documented | source |
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Chicago Pharmacy Technician Sentenced for Stealing 56,000 Hydrocodone Pills
2019-11-20
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Illinois Chicago, Illinois |
Pharmacy technician, Allcare Discount Pharmacy (Chicago, IL) | Hydrocodone — approx. 56,108 pills | Stole pills with a co-defendant, falsified inventory records to conceal the theft, sold the pills for profit | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Nov 2019 to 5 years in federal prison | $250,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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St. Vincent Healthcare Nurse Swapped Patient's Pain Pills for Acetaminophen
2019-10-29
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Montana Billings, Montana |
St. Vincent Healthcare (Billings, MT) | Hydrocodone (patient's prescribed pain pills) | Swapped patient's hydrocodone pills for over-the-counter acetaminophen | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Oct 29, 2019 to 4 years' probation | none documented | source |
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Las Vegas nurse sentenced for illegally prescribing hydrocodone and oxycodone in a cash-for-prescriptions scheme
2019-05
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Nevada Las Vegas, NV |
not stated | hydrocodone and oxycodone | Alleged and admitted conduct: arranged with a surgical technician and a physician to give hydrocodone and oxycodone to patients without a legitimate medical purpose in exchange for cash, and wrote illegal prescriptions without a medical purpose; also billed Medicare and Medicaid for prescriptions for lidocaine, modafinil and diclofenac sodium without having examined the patient. | not stated | Pleaded guilty to eight counts of distribution of a controlled substance and eight counts of health care fraud; sentenced to more than six years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $3,749,121 in restitution. | none documented | source |
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Army hospital pharmacy technician admitted stealing and distributing hydrocodone and oxycodone
2019-02
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Hawaii Oahu, Hawaii |
Tripler Army Medical Center | hydrocodone or oxycodone | charged with and later admitted stealing and distributing 8,505 pills containing five milligrams of either hydrocodone or oxycodone from the hospital's pharmacy vault | not stated | charged; later admitted; serving a one-year sentence in a federal correctional institution in California | none documented | source |
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Kansas Pharmacist Sentenced in Controlled Substance Diversion Case (2019)
2019
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Kansas Kansas |
Pharmacist (Kansas) | Approximately 21,289 tablets of hydrocodone with acetaminophen | Charge as worded in the source: distributing a prescription painkiller outside the usual course of professional practice | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced (2019) to 36 months probation | none documented | source |
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California Physician Sentenced in Opioid Diversion Case (2019)
2019
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California California |
Physician (California) | Hydrocodone | Charge as worded in the source: health care fraud; distributing hydrocodone outside the scope of professional practice and without a legitimate medical need | not stated | Sentenced (2019) to 24 months in prison | none documented | source |
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