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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Pain clinic physician pleaded guilty to operating a pill mill and selling oxycodone for kickbacks
2021-07
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Ohio Columbus, OH |
Columbus Pain Specialists | oxycodone | operated a pill mill out of his practice for more than seven years and sold oxycodone in exchange for financial kickbacks; also staged a break-in at his practice to make a fraudulent insurance claim | not stated | pleaded guilty; sentenced to five years probation, ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, forfeit more than $524,000, and surrender his medical license and DEA registration | none documented | source |
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Massachusetts ER Nurse Tampered with Hydromorphone and Meperidine
2021-06-29
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Massachusetts West Boylston, Massachusetts |
Hospital emergency department, Massachusetts | Hydromorphone and meperidine | Falsified automated dispensing machine transactions to remove carpujects, punctured them to steal the drugs, and refilled some with saline before returning them to circulation | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison plus 3 years supervised release | none documented | source |
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Nurse Tampered with Fentanyl Vials at Yale Fertility Clinic
2021-05-25
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Connecticut Orange, Connecticut |
Nurse, Yale Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility clinic (Orange, CT) | Fentanyl vials — ~75% of doses given Jun-Oct 2020 found adulterated | Stole fentanyl for personal use, reinjected saline into vials to mask the theft | not stated | Pleaded guilty Mar 2021; sentenced to 3 yrs supervised release, 4 weekends incarceration, 3 months home confinement | $308,250 (civil settlement) | source |
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Nurse Arrested for Stealing 1,400+ Vials of Fentanyl from Long Island Hospital
2021-05-18
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New York Manhasset, New York |
Nurse, cardiac unit, North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, NY) | Fentanyl — 1,467 vials + midazolam — 223 vials | Used her fingerprint and ID number to access a medication dispensing machine 50+ times over ~2.5 months, noting a patient's name against each withdrawal though none of the drugs were administered to patients | not stated | Arrested and arraigned May 18, 2021 on state charges incl. 3rd-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, grand larceny, and falsifying business records | none documented | source |
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Minnesota pharmacy technician took oxycodone from filled patient prescriptions; registration surrendered
2021-05
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Minnesota | Retail pharmacy will-call area | Oxycodone tablets | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Dothan Pharmacy Owner Sentenced for Selling Opioids Without Prescriptions
2021-04-27
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Alabama Dothan, Alabama |
Independently owned retail pharmacy (Allen's Pharmacy), Dothan, Alabama | Oxycodone and hydrocodone (Schedule II) | Pharmacy owner personally sold controlled substances to individuals for cash outside any valid prescription | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 87 months in federal prison and 3 years of supervised release | none documented | source |
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Fontana pharmacy technician's registration revoked over diversion of 117 tramadol tablets
2021-04-26
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California | High-volume outpatient pharmacy of a large health system in Fontana | Tramadol 50 mg (Schedule IV) | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Lowell Nursing Home Nurse Diverted Hospice Patients' Liquid Morphine
2021-04-09
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Massachusetts Lowell, Massachusetts |
Nursing home hospice care, Lowell and Melrose, Massachusetts | Liquid morphine | Diverted morphine from bottles prescribed to elderly hospice patients, replacing it with saline or Benadryl and falsifying medication records | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 42 months in prison and 3 years supervised release | none documented | source |
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- Method: stated in 474 of 730 cases (65%)
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Last reviewed: September 2026 · Content is educational, not legal advice.