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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Registered nurse removed fentanyl from medication safe without order or documentation and failed to document controlled substance administration/wasting; license revoked
2026-04
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Oregon | Grants Pass Surgery Center, Hearthstone Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Bay Area Hospital | fentanyl, oxycodone, hydromorphone, alprazolam, lorazepam, tramadol | removed fentanyl from a medication safe without a written order or documentation; failed to document administration or wasting of controlled substances; wasted oxycodone without allowing a witness to verify the medication; delayed wasting of controlled substances | not stated | Registered nurse license revoked | 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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Hospital pharmacy manager diverted hydromorphone, methadone and morphine from a CII safe using unused transaction types
2024-07
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Indiana Muncie, IN |
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital, Inc. | hydromorphone, methadone, morphine sulfate | Between approximately November 2020 and July 2024, a pharmacist serving as the hospital's pharmacy manager used normally-unused transaction types in the automated inventory management system to remove controlled substances from the CII safe and take personal possession of them, using his duty of stocking controlled substances at affiliated outpatient pain and orthopedic centers as cover. The hospital's controlled-substance tracking policies did not include regular auditing or comparison of patient utilization at those centers, CII Safe Review Sale reports, or All CII Safe Events reports, which allowed the discrepancies to go undetected. | not stated | The hospital's pharmacy license and controlled substances registration were placed on indefinite probation for not less than three years, with quarterly outside audits for the first two years, two unannounced compliance inspections, required diversion-prevention training for pharmacy leadership, and a $44,000 fine; the hospital reported the loss to the DEA and Board in July 2024 and filed an amended DEA Form 106 in November 2024, and in August 2025 the county prosecutor's office filed charges against the pharmacist. | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse diverted and consumed Oxycodone on-shift in cardiac surgery unit
2023-10
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Oregon | PeaceHealth of Riverbend Medical Center | Oxycodone | diverted and consumed Oxycodone while working on-shift; disclosed to the Board | not stated | voluntarily surrendered registered nurse license | none documented | source |
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Agency nurse accused of diverting fentanyl at Watertown hospital; interim suspension
2023-10
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Wisconsin Watertown, WI |
a hospital located in Watertown, Wisconsin | fentanyl | Alleged diversion and use of fentanyl while working as an agency nurse assigned to a hospital located in Watertown, Wisconsin; the Board had not determined whether any statutes or rules were violated. | not stated | Interim order accepted; privilege to practice as a registered nurse in Wisconsin under the Nurse Licensure Compact suspended during the pendency of the disciplinary matter, effective 10/12/2023. | none documented | source |
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Missouri Nurse License Revoked Over Hospital Opioid Diversion and Unauthorized Badge Access
2022-07-05
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Missouri St. Louis, Missouri |
Mercy Hospital East, St. Louis, Missouri | Morphine and hydromorphone | Extracted drug residue from vials after administering patient doses and refilled the vials with an identical amount of saline solution to conceal the theft; also retrieved used vials from medical waste containers; after suspension, accessed the hospital 127 times over 18 days using her employee badge, and a drug test returned positive for morphine | not stated | Missouri Board of Nursing revoked the license on July 5, 2022; a circuit court reversed the board's order on January 29, 2023, and the board issued a probated license per the court's order on April 3, 2023 | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician diverted OxyContin from AccuDose machines at Baptist Medical Center
2020-07
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Mississippi | Baptist Medical Center | OxyContin | admitted to taking OxyContin from the AccuDose machines at Baptist Medical Center | not stated | The board accepted the voluntary surrender of the pharmacy technician registration, revoked it, and imposed $250 in investigation costs. | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician diverted Norco, Percocet, and MS Contin from Magee General Hospital pharmacy
2020-07
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Mississippi | Magee General Hospital pharmacy | Norco, Percocet and MS Contin | admitted to taking Norco, Percocet and MS Contin from the pharmacy at Magee General Hospital where she worked | not stated | The board accepted the voluntary surrender of the pharmacy technician registration, revoked it, and imposed $350 in investigation costs. | none documented | source |
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