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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Kansas Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Fentanyl and Hydromorphone Vials
2023-03-13
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Kansas Overland Park, Kansas |
Menorah Medical Center (Overland Park, KS) | Fentanyl + hydromorphone | Removed vials from dispensing cabinet, refilled with substitute liquid | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Mar 2023 to 18 months | none documented | source |
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Kansas hospital nurse sentenced for tampering with fentanyl and hydromorphone vials
2023-03-13
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Kansas | Hospital in Overland Park, Kansas | Fentanyl and hydromorphone | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Pharmacist Sentenced for Selling 25,000+ Opioid Pills from His Own Pharmacy
2023-02-09
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Michigan Madison Heights, Michigan |
Retail pharmacy (Great Health Pharmacy), Madison Heights, Michigan | Oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone-acetaminophen, and promethazine with codeine | Pharmacist filled cash prescriptions for a patient recruiter, including in the names of people who never visited the pharmacy, and sold pharmacy stock bottles directly with no prescription | not stated | Sentenced February 2023, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, to 84 months in federal prison | $1,200,000 (forfeiture) | source |
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Missouri Methadone Clinic Owner Admits Diluting Methadone to Conceal a Shortage from the DEA
2023-02-03
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Missouri Leadington, Missouri |
DEA-registered outpatient methadone clinic (narcotic treatment program), Leadington, Missouri | Methadone oral concentrate | Diluted the clinic's bulk methadone supply with saline and water to conceal a shortage from the DEA, after submitting an inaccurate loss-report form | not stated | Pleaded guilty, February 2023, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri; DEA registration surrendered; sentencing scheduled for May 2023 | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician diverted a customer's oxycodone prescription at a Hagerstown pharmacy
2023-02
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Maryland Hagerstown, MD |
a pharmacy in Hagerstown, Maryland | oxycodone 5 mg/325 mg (oxycodone/acetaminophen), 45 pills | Alleged diversion of a customer's prescription: the technician was given the prescription, carried it with two others to the front register but gave only one to the cashier, placed the oxycodone prescription back in the customer waiting area, later removed the pills from the bag and put them in her pocket, and deleted the prescription on hold. She admitted to the pharmacy's asset protection manager that she diverted the oxycodone pills to self-medicate a back injury, and admitted in a written statement that she took a patient's medication and emptied 45 pills into her pocket. | not stated | Registration to practice as a pharmacy technician revoked by final order; the Board found diversion of a controlled dangerous substance. | none documented | source |
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Massachusetts Nursing Home Nurse Sentenced for Diluting a Dementia Patient's Morphine
2023-01-13
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Massachusetts Northborough, Massachusetts |
Nursing home, dementia care unit, Worcester County, Massachusetts | Morphine sulfate | Removed morphine from a resident's bottle during an overnight shift and replaced it with water, and the diluted dose was later administered to the patient | not stated | Sentenced January 2023, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, to 52 months in prison | none documented | source |
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Massachusetts Nurse Sentenced for Tampering With Fentanyl at Hospital and Surgery Center
2023-01-10
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Massachusetts Massachusetts |
Hospital post-surgery recovery unit and outpatient vascular surgery center | Fentanyl | Removed fentanyl from surgical-patient vials and replaced it with saline, leaving vials at 1.3-7% of declared concentration | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 5 years' probation (1 year home detention) and a $20,000 fine (Jan. 2023) | $20,000 (criminal fine) | source |
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Pain clinic nurse practitioner conspired to dispense fentanyl by forging a physician's signature on prescriptions
2023-01
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Alabama | a pain management clinic | fentanyl (Subsys and Abstral, Schedule II) | Convicted of conspiring to prescribe fentanyl outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose; admitted to seeing patients without physician oversight while impaired by her own drug use, and to asking a co-defendant nurse practitioner to forge a physician's signature on controlled-substance prescriptions. | not stated | Sentenced to 20 months in federal prison after a 50% sentence reduction for cooperating in the prosecution of the clinic's co-owning physicians. | none documented | source |
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