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Showing 124 of 931 cases · page 3 of 16.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Stamford Nurse Tampered with Hydromorphone and Fentanyl Vials
2025-08-12
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Connecticut Stamford, Connecticut |
Outpatient surgical center, Stamford, CT | Hydromorphone + fentanyl vials | Extracted with syringe, refilled with saline/water, returned to storage | not stated | Sentenced Aug 12, 2025 — 5 months prison + 3 yrs supervised release + $5K fine | $5,000 (criminal fine) | source |
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Travel Nurse Sentenced for Diverting Hydromorphone at West Virginia Hospital
2025-07-03
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West Virginia Beckley, West Virginia |
Travel nurse, Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley, WV (employed Sept. 2021-Feb. 2022) | Hydromorphone | Used own biometrics and a patient's health information to open an automated medication dispensing/monitoring machine, siphoned off drug, diluted the remaining vial, and voided transactions to conceal the theft | not stated | Pleaded guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and wrongful disclosure of health information; sentenced July 3, 2025 to 5 years prison; nursing license suspended indefinitely. Of the 5-year sentence, two years were for obtaining a controlled substance and three years for wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information. | none documented | source |
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Traveling Nurse Diverted Hydromorphone from Beckley Hospital Using Patients' Health Information
2025-07-03
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West Virginia Beckley, WV |
Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley, WV | Hydromorphone | Used biometrics and patients' health information to check out hydromorphone, siphoned off part of each vial, diluted the remainder, and canceled the transactions to conceal the removals | not stated | Sentenced Jul 3, 2025, to five years in prison; nursing privilege in WV indefinitely suspended | none documented | source |
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Travel nurse at Beckley hospital diverted hydromorphone, sentenced to five years
2025-07
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West Virginia | Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley, WV | Hydromorphone | not stated | Travel nurse (Kentucky resident) working in southern West Virginia | not stated | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse alleged to have diverted IV Dilaudid from a worksite an automated dispensing cabinet by logging it out and pocketing it
2025-01
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Oregon | worksite with an automated dispensing cabinet system | IV Dilaudid | Alleged diversion of IV Dilaudid: logged out IV Dilaudid but did not administer it for more than an hour; logged out IV Dilaudid but did not waste it for more than an hour; logged out IV Dilaudid and put it in a pocket; documented administering IV Dilaudid when it was not administered; administered IV Dilaudid but did not document it for approximately two days; failed to document a pain assessment; carried medications in pockets and failed to waste controlled substances at the time of removal from an automated dispensing cabinet. | not stated | RN license placed on probation for 24 months within 36 months, with monitored practice and education conditions. | none documented | source |
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West Virginia Nurse Sentenced in Opioid Diversion Case (2025)
2025
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West Virginia West Virginia |
Travel nurse at Raleigh General Hospital (West Virginia) | Hydromorphone | Charge as worded in the source: obtaining a controlled substance by fraud; wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information | not stated | Sentenced (2025); terms are in the source; license suspended | none documented | source |
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New Hampshire Nurse Charged in Opioid Diversion Case (2025)
2025
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New Hampshire New Hampshire |
Nurse (New Hampshire) | Fentanyl, oxycodone, morphine, hydromorphone | Details are limited to what the source states; see the summary above | not stated | Charged (2025); charges are allegations, no conviction reported in the source; license surrendered (New Hampshire Board of Nursing) | none documented | source |
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Iowa Nurse Sentenced in Controlled Substance Diversion Case (2025, case 2)
2025
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Iowa Iowa |
Emergency room registered nurse at UnityPoint-Marshalltown Hospital, then Mary Greeley Medical Center (Iowa) | Hydromorphone, fentanyl, morphine | Details are limited to what the source states; see the summary above | not stated | Sentenced (2025) to 6 months in prison, $5,500 fine, $5,258.20 restitution | $5,500 (criminal fine) | source |
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