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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Phoenix-Area Pharmacist and Technician Diverted More Than 200,000 Opioid Tablets from Two Pharmacies
2018-11-28
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Arizona Peoria / Phoenix, AZ |
Two retail pharmacies, Phoenix metro area, AZ | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, alprazolam, and promethazine with codeine | Processed fraudulent prescriptions through two pharmacies to distribute over 200,000 opioid tablets and thousands of alprazolam tablets into the community | not stated | Convicted of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and launder proceeds; sentenced Nov 28, 2018, to 120 months (pharmacist) and 48 months (technician) in prison | none documented | source |
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Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Pharmacy Settles Over Missing Oxycodone
2018-11-20
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Montana St. Ignatius, Montana |
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Pharmacy (St. Ignatius, MT) | Oxycodone — approximately 2,500 pills unaccounted for | Inadequate recordkeeping and failure to report missing controlled substances to DEA | not stated | Civil settlement, $95,520 — announced Nov 20, 2018 | $95,520 (civil penalty) | source |
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Montana reservation pharmacy settled over 2,500 unaccounted-for oxycodone tablets
2018-11-19
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Montana | Pharmacy on the Flathead Indian Reservation in St. Ignatius, Montana | Oxycodone (approximately 2,500 tablets unaccounted for, March 2017 to March 2018) | not stated | Tribal pharmacy (organizational respondent, no individual charged) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Hospital pharmacy technician diverted hydrocodone and oxycodone from a pharmacy vault through fraudulent automated dispensing transactions
2018-10
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Hawaii | Tripler Army Medical Center | hydrocodone and oxycodone (Schedule II controlled substances) | Stole 8,505 pills, each containing 5 milligrams of either hydrocodone or oxycodone, from the hospital's pharmacy vault between February 2017 and March 2018, using her authorized fingerprint and unique login to conduct 82 fraudulent transactions in the hospital's new automated medication distribution and tracking system, which she found did not require a valid prescription to dispense medication to patients being discharged; gave the pills to her boyfriend for his personal use and used some herself. | not stated | Sentenced to 12 months in jail plus six years of court supervision; pleaded guilty in June to one count each of possessing with intent to distribute hydrocodone and oxycodone; had repaid $1,033 to the hospital before sentencing. | none documented | source |
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Las Vegas nurse practitioner and surgical technician pleaded guilty to distributing hydrocodone and oxycodone prescriptions for cash
2018-10
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Nevada | Parking lots in the Las Vegas Valley; prescriptions written on the nurse practitioner's pad with a physician's pre-signed DEA number | Hydrocodone and oxycodone | not stated | Advanced practice registered nurse and a surgical technician without a medical or DEA license | not stated | none documented | source |
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University of Michigan Health System Pays $4.3M in Record Drug Diversion Settlement
2018-08-30
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Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan |
University of Michigan Health System, main hospital and 15 unregistered off-site clinics (Ann Arbor, MI) | Opioids including fentanyl, system-wide | Unregistered off-site narcotics distribution; recordkeeping failures; untimely theft/loss reporting to DEA | not stated | Civil settlement, $4.3 million — announced Aug 30, 2018 | $4,300,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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Pharmacy Technician Diverts Fentanyl at Iowa Methodist Medical Center
2018-07-10
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Iowa Des Moines, Iowa |
Pharmacy technician, Iowa Methodist Medical Center (Des Moines, IA) | Fentanyl vials | Extracted fentanyl with syringe, self-injected, refilled vials with a different fluid, returned to storage | not stated | Sentenced Jul 10, 2018 — 30 months + 3 yrs supervised release | none documented | source |
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Long Island pharmacy chain settled claims it failed to timely report controlled substance losses and thefts
2018-06-28
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New York | Pharmacy stores in Nassau and Suffolk counties, Long Island | Hydrocodone and other controlled substances | not stated | Retail pharmacy chain | not stated | none documented | source |
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