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Unlicensed Director of Nursing at Cherrydale Post Acute charged with stealing oxycodone from a person
2025-12
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South Carolina Greenville, SC |
Cherrydale Post Acute | oxycodone | Allegedly stole a quantity of oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, from another person with intent to permanently deprive that person of the medication while employed at Cherrydale Post Acute. | not stated | Arrested and charged with one count of Theft of a Controlled Substance, first offense, and two counts of Unlicensed Practice as Registered Nurse or Practical Nurse; booked into the Greenville County Detention Center. Presumed innocent unless proven guilty. | none documented | source |
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Massachusetts Hospice Nurse Indicted for Swapping Dementia Patient's Oxycodone with Household Cleaner
2025-11-02
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Massachusetts Amesbury, Massachusetts |
RN, long-term care/rehab facility (Amesbury, MA) | Liquid oxycodone | Allegedly removed oxycodone from a non-verbal dementia hospice patient's medication with a syringe around Mar 31, 2025 and replaced it with a household cleaning chemical | not stated | Indicted by federal grand jury Oct 30, 2025 on tampering with a consumer product; arrested Oct 31, pleaded not guilty | none documented | source |
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Ohio Nurse Named in Opioid Diversion Case (2024)
2024
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Ohio Ohio |
Licensed practical nurse (Ohio) | Oxycodone | Details are limited to what the source states; see the summary above | not stated | Pleaded guilty; outcome unclear in the source (2024); Ohio Board of Nursing | none documented | source |
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Anchorage nurse practitioner charged with manslaughter and drug distribution for opioid prescriptions without office visits
2020-03
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Alaska Anchorage, AK |
Surgical Specialists of Alaska | diazepam, oxycodone, tramadol, hydrocodone, and Ambien | Alleged: used position as a nurse practitioner to fraudulently give a patient and others vast quantities of prescription opioids; routinely prescribed controlled substances to friends and acquaintances without office visits, chart notes, rationalization, or explanation, often via text or the internet; agreed to meet to write a prescription after a request for pain pills. | not stated | Indicted on 18 felony counts including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide plus drug distribution counts; pleaded not guilty; license suspended by the Alaska Board of Nursing. An outside review found no justification for many of the prescriptions; the nursing board had previously suspended the practitioner's license. | none documented | source |
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Rawlins physician charged with prescribing oxycodone and other controlled substances outside legitimate medical practice
2020-02
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Wyoming Rawlins, WY |
Practice | oxycodone, alprazolam, tramadol, promethazine with codeine, amphetamine/dextroamphetamine, hydrocodone | Charged in a 32-count federal indictment with dispensing controlled substances from 2014 to 2017 often without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice, including to persons under 21 and to pregnant women under 21; the state medical board found in 2017 that the physician was inappropriately prescribing controlled substances for other than legitimate purposes, prescribing to known abusers, and offering drugs in exchange for sex. | not stated | Federal criminal charges (32 counts) with a guilty plea scheduled; 2017 license suspension; voluntary relinquishment of license accepted August 2018. | none documented | source |
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Pain clinic physician indicted for prescribing fentanyl, oxycodone and other controlled substances without patient examinations
2018-06
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Ohio Hamilton, OH |
Cincinnati Centers for Pain Relief | fentanyl, oxycodone, methadone, morphine | Charged by indictment with unlawful distribution of controlled substances: allegedly prescribing fentanyl, oxycodone, methadone, morphine and other controlled substances on many occasions without patients actually being seen by the physician, and billing Medicare, Medicaid and the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for medically unnecessary prescriptions; also alleged to have received payments from a pharmaceutical company for sham speaking engagements about a fentanyl spray. | not stated | Federal grand jury indictment: 88 counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, one count of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance with death resulting, eight counts of health care fraud and 17 counts of violating the anti-kickback law. Charges only; no finding or plea reported. | none documented | source |
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Carlsbad Pharmacy Technician Pleads Guilty to Stealing Oxycodone
2016-12-20
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New Mexico Carlsbad, New Mexico |
Southwest Pharmacy (Carlsbad, NM) | Oxycodone — approximately 20,344 tablets alleged stolen over the employment period | Pharmacy technician took pills directly from stock bottles for personal use | not stated | Pleaded guilty Dec 20, 2016 to misdemeanor unlawful possession of a controlled substance | $1,000 (criminal fine) | source |
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Worcester Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Oxycodone from Nursing Home Patients
2015-11-05
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Massachusetts Worcester, Massachusetts |
Nursing care facility (Worcester, MA) | Oxycodone tablets, three patients | Stole prescribed tablets, substituted look-alike antihistamine/antidepressant pills | not stated | Pleaded guilty Nov 5, 2015; faced up to 4 years in prison | none documented | source |
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