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Muncie hospital pharmacy license put on probation after pharmacy manager diverted opioids using unused transaction types
2026-07
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Indiana Muncie, IN |
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital | hydromorphone, methadone, morphine | The attorney general's administrative complaint alleged the hospital failed over a 44-month period to maintain effective controls against theft and diversion of controlled substances, allowing a pharmacy manager to repeatedly remove Schedule II narcotics through normally-unused transaction types while disguising the withdrawals as legitimate transfers to two outpatient clinics. Investigators said the reported losses included more than 32,000 milliliters of hydromorphone, more than 3,300 milliliters of methadone solution, more than 4,000 methadone tablets and smaller amounts of morphine, with the hospital estimating its loss at more than $121,000. | not stated | The Indiana Board of Pharmacy voted 3-2 to accept a revised settlement placing the hospital's pharmacy license and controlled substance registration on indefinite probation for at least three years, imposing the maximum $44,000 civil fine plus a $5 statutory fee, and requiring quarterly independent audits, two unannounced compliance inspections, a drug diversion certificate program for pharmacy leadership and additional diversion-prevention continuing education. | none documented | source |
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Indiana hospital pharmacy placed on probation after multi-year opioid diversion by pharmacy manager
2026-07
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Indiana | Hospital pharmacy, Muncie (Delaware County) | Hydromorphone, methadone solution and tablets, morphine | not stated | Pharmacy manager (pharmacist); hospital pharmacy license disciplined | not stated | 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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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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Kentucky hospital agrees to $4.4 million civil penalty over recordkeeping that allowed pharmacy technician to divert 60,000 opioid doses
2022-12-08
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Kentucky | Pikeville Medical Center narcotics vault and automated dispensing cabinets | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone (more than 60,000 doses) | not stated | Hospital pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Kentucky hospital pharmacy technician diverted over 60,000 opioid doses; hospital paid civil penalty
2022-12
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Kentucky | Hospital system narcotics vault and automated dispensing cabinets, Pikeville, Kentucky | Oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone (more than 60,000 doses) | not stated | Hospital pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Psychiatric Hospital Settles Unregistered Methadone Clinic Allegations — Massachusetts, 2011
2011-09-27
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Massachusetts Georgetown, Massachusetts |
Baldpate Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital in Georgetown, MA | Methadone | Operated an unregistered narcotic treatment clinic; failed to maintain required methadone records/inventories | not stated | Civil settlement with DEA/U.S. Attorney's Office | $29,500 (civil settlement) | source |
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