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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Kentucky Pharmacist Convicted in Opioid Diversion Case (2018)
2018
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Kentucky Kentucky |
Pharmacist and owner of a pharmacy in Ashland, Kentucky (Kentucky) | Oxycodone, hydrocodone | Details are limited to what the source states; see the summary above | not stated | Pleaded guilty; convicted (2018); sentence not reported in the source | none documented | source |
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Perryville pharmacy owner sentenced to 10 years for selling opioids off pharmacy shelves and forging prescriptions
2017-09-27
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Arkansas | Independent pharmacy in Perryville | Oxycodone and hydrocodone (Schedule II, III and IV pills) | not stated | Managing pharmacist and co-owner | not stated | none documented | source |
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Nevada grocery-pharmacy technician accused of diverting hydrocodone, amphetamine and oxycodone tablets from patient bottles
2017-08
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Nevada | Retail grocery-chain pharmacy | Hydrocodone/acetaminophen, amphetamine salts and oxycodone (alleged) | not stated | Registered pharmaceutical technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician diverted over 216,000 Norco tablets from a retail pharmacy while the pharmacist-in-charge failed to detect the theft
2015-08
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California West Hills, CA |
retail pharmacy (Target) | Norco (hydrocodone/acetaminophen) | A pharmacy technician diverted the drug over a roughly two-year period by repeatedly ordering large quantities to be delivered on days she worked, intercepting and hiding the bottles in the storeroom, destroying the packing invoices, and removing the drugs to her car while the on-duty pharmacist was on break. The pharmacist-in-charge failed to review delivery invoices, restrict access to the phone-ordering passcode, or conduct random audits that could have detected the diversion sooner. | not stated | The California State Board of Pharmacy found grounds for discipline after a hearing and revoked the pharmacist-in-charge's license but stayed the revocation, placing the license on three years' probation with conditions; a petition for writ of administrative mandate challenging the discipline was denied, and the Court of Appeal affirmed. | none documented | source |
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Pharmacist Pleads Guilty to Stealing 67,000 Doses of Prescription Narcotics — Minnesota, 2014
2014-10-28
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Minnesota Burnsville, Minnesota |
Retail pharmacy in Burnsville, MN | Hydrocodone, oxycodone, carisoprodol, and diazepam | Falsified controlled-substance receiving logs to understate shipments, then stole the discrepancy | not stated | Pleaded guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician admitted taking Xanax, Lortab and Luminal without payment from a national chain pharmacy
2014-10
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Maryland Baltimore, MD |
a national chain pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland | Xanax (alprazolam) 2 mg, Lortab (hydrocodone-APAP) 10/500 mg, Luminal (phenobarbital) 60 mg and 16.2 mg | admitted orally and in writing to taking the drugs without payment and stated the count was not accurate and that she stole the drugs | not stated | registration summarily suspended by the State Board of Pharmacy; terminated from employment; criminally charged in the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore County with theft less than $1,000 and theft-scheme less than $1,000 | none documented | source |
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Burlington pharmacy technician accused of taking thousands of hydrocodone, zolpidem and buprenorphine tablets
2014-03-11
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Vermont | Retail pharmacy, Burlington | Hydrocodone, zolpidem and Suboxone | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Vermont supermarket pharmacist wrote and filled fraudulent hydrocodone prescriptions in two states
2014-03-11
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Vermont | Supermarket pharmacy; prescriptions filled in Vermont and New York | Hydrocodone-acetaminophen (majority of prescriptions) | not stated | Pharmacist | not stated | none documented | source |
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