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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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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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New Hampshire emergency department nurse pleaded guilty after keeping partial opioid doses
2025-12
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New Hampshire | Regional medical center in Keene, New Hampshire | Fentanyl, morphine and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) | not stated | Emergency department nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Emergency Room Nurse Sentenced for Tampering With Fentanyl Vials at Michigan Hospital
2025-11-25
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Michigan Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan |
Registered nurse, emergency room, Ascension St. John Hospital, Grosse Pointe Park/Detroit, MI | Fentanyl | Removed fentanyl from vials, substituted another liquid, and returned tampered vials to locked drug storage; also stole vials outright for personal use | not stated | Pleaded guilty to tampering with a consumer product; sentenced Nov. 25, 2025 to two years in federal prison | none documented | source |
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Anchorage Nurse Practitioner Sentenced for Prescribing Opioids Without Medical Purpose
2025-11-14
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Alaska Anchorage, Alaska |
not stated | Fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and diazepam | Prescribed the controlled substances to six patients between June 2016 and November 2018 without any legitimate medical purpose | Advanced Nurse Practitioner licensed to prescribe in Alaska | Convicted May 2025 — 10 felony second-degree and 2 felony third-degree counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance; sentenced Nov 14, 2025 to 3 years to serve plus 4 years probation | 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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Hospital lead pharmacy technician diverted Oxycodone by substituting Fludrocortisone during prepackaging for automated dispensing system
2025-11
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Maryland | a hospital in Prince George's County, Maryland | Oxycodone | Switched Oxycodone 5 mg tablets with Fludrocortisone 0.1 mg tablets during prepackaging to refill an automated medication dispensing system and entered zero-count refills to conceal the swap; admitted to personally ingesting the Oxycodone. | not stated | Registration revoked. | none documented | source |
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Nurse anesthetist at a Chattanooga hospital admitted diverting leftover fentanyl from surgeries, state consent order says
2025-11
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Tennessee Chattanooga, TN |
Erlanger Baroness Hospital (Erlanger Medical Center), surgery center | fentanyl | Admitted taking and abusing unused fentanyl that would otherwise have been wasted after surgical procedures, initially once or twice a week beginning in March 2025 and increasing to daily use by June 2025; coworkers reported the nurse appeared impaired while on duty in the surgery center on or around June 30, 2025, with slurred speech, extreme tiredness, swaying with eyes closed and head nodding; the nurse failed a drug test and was fired; a hospital audit found about five instances where the automated monitoring system did not flag missing drugs, plus additional inconsistencies between drug dispensing and waste documentation that should have been flagged. | not stated | Settled the Board of Nursing case by signing a consent order in November 2025; license placed on probation while attending drug counseling; not charged with any crime related to the case. | none documented | source |
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Agency affiliated counselor alleged to have ingested unprescribed methadone while transporting clients
2025-11
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Washington | Washington state (employer not named in the release) | methadone | allegedly ingested unprescribed methadone while transporting clients; later admitted taking the methadone | not stated | charged with unprofessional conduct; terminated by employer | none documented | source |
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