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Osage Beach Nurse Anesthetist Diverted Fentanyl from Hospital Operating Rooms
2024-12-16
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Missouri Osage Beach, Missouri |
Lake Regional Hospital operating rooms, Osage Beach, Missouri | Fentanyl and hydromorphone | Scanned vials to generate labels affixed to saline-filled syringes, pulled extra vials during procedures, and falsified patient charts | not stated | Pleaded guilty Dec. 16, 2024, to obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation; faces up to 4 years in prison | none documented | source |
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Travel Nurse Diverted Hydromorphone Using Patients' Health Information
2024-12-11
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West Virginia Beckley, West Virginia |
Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley, West Virginia | Hydromorphone | Used personal biometrics to access dispensing cabinets, siphoned and diluted vial contents, resealed vials, then canceled the transaction | not stated | Pleaded guilty Dec. 11, 2024, to fraud and wrongful disclosure of health information; sentencing set for April 2025. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors agreed to dismiss a third charge of attempting to tamper with a consumer product; maximum penalty was 14 years in prison. | none documented | source |
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Mid-Valley Hospital Pays $15,000 Penalty Over Nurse's Hydromorphone Theft
2024-11-15
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Washington Omak, Washington |
Mid-Valley Hospital and Clinic, Omak, Washington | Hydromorphone (Dilaudid) | Kept leftover doses instead of wasting them and used dispensing-system overrides to withdraw extra doses while override reports went unreviewed | not stated | Hospital paid $15,000 CSA civil penalty Nov. 2024; nurse entered separate state and federal diversion agreements | $15,000 (civil penalty) | source |
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VA Nurse Diverted Narcotics from Dying Veterans at West Haven VA
2024-09-12
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Connecticut West Haven, Connecticut |
RN, West Haven VA Medical Center ICU (West Haven, CT) | Fentanyl, hydromorphone, oxycodone | Ingested "waste" portions of patients' narcotics, including repeatedly dosing a braindead patient with fentanyl to divert the excess; falsified VA records to show narcotics as properly administered or disposed of | not stated | Pleaded guilty Jun 18, 2024 to obtaining controlled substances by fraud/subterfuge; sentenced to 2 years probation, first 6 months in home confinement | none documented | source |
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Hospital Pharmacy Manager Stole 35,000+ Opioid Vials from Secure Vault
2024-07-28
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Indiana Muncie, Indiana |
Pharmacy manager, IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie, IN) | Hydromorphone (~317,000 mg) + methadone (~41,390 mg) + morphine (290 mg) — 35,000+ vials | Diverted an average of ~500 vials/month from the secure vault over ~5 years; hospital audit and search warrant found drugs at his home. Diversion was allegedly disguised using normally-unused transaction types recorded as legitimate transfers to the hospital's outpatient clinics. | not stated | Arrested Jul 2024; felony charges filed Aug 2025 — possession, theft, obtaining a controlled substance by fraud/deceit, unlawful possession of a syringe, forgery; case pending | $44,000 (civil penalty) | source |
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Oklahoma City Anesthesiologist Convicted of Diverting Hospital Opioids
2024-07-11
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Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Oklahoma City-area hospital operating rooms | Fentanyl, ketamine, hydromorphone, and midazolam | Claimed controlled substances were needed for surgeries he did not perform, then falsely reported disposing of the drugs while keeping them | not stated | Convicted by federal jury July 11, 2024, on 18 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by deceit | none documented | source |
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Hospital pharmacy manager diverted hydromorphone, methadone and morphine from a CII safe using unused transaction types
2024-07
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Indiana Muncie, IN |
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital, Inc. | hydromorphone, methadone, morphine sulfate | Between approximately November 2020 and July 2024, a pharmacist serving as the hospital's pharmacy manager used normally-unused transaction types in the automated inventory management system to remove controlled substances from the CII safe and take personal possession of them, using his duty of stocking controlled substances at affiliated outpatient pain and orthopedic centers as cover. The hospital's controlled-substance tracking policies did not include regular auditing or comparison of patient utilization at those centers, CII Safe Review Sale reports, or All CII Safe Events reports, which allowed the discrepancies to go undetected. | not stated | The hospital's pharmacy license and controlled substances registration were placed on indefinite probation for not less than three years, with quarterly outside audits for the first two years, two unannounced compliance inspections, required diversion-prevention training for pharmacy leadership, and a $44,000 fine; the hospital reported the loss to the DEA and Board in July 2024 and filed an amended DEA Form 106 in November 2024, and in August 2025 the county prosecutor's office filed charges against the pharmacist. | none documented | source |
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Hospital Pharmacy Technician Pleaded Guilty to Tampering with Hydromorphone
2024-04-30
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Connecticut Norwich, Connecticut |
Pharmacy technician, Backus Hospital (Norwich, CT) | Hydromorphone solution — 3 bags | Used employee ID badge to access secure storage on Jan 11, 2024, removed a portion of hydromorphone from each bag, replaced it with saline, returned bags to storage for patient use | not stated | Waived indictment; pleaded guilty Apr 30, 2024 to tampering with a consumer product — sentencing not yet scheduled | none documented | source |
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