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Emergency Department Physician Pleads Guilty to 19 Counts of Illegally Prescribing Opioids and Stimulants
2026-10-21
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Florida Pensacola, Florida |
Hospital emergency departments and other medical offices in and around Escambia County, Florida; prescriptions written 2020-2025 and filled at pharmacies in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties | Over 22,000 opioid pills (primarily oxycodone and hydrocodone) and over 3,000 stimulant pills (primarily Adderall or generic equivalents), at least 25,500 controlled-substance pills in total | Wrote, signed and distributed prescriptions with no determination of a legitimate medical purpose, no physical examination, no review of prior medical and prescribing records and no record of the encounter, in whatever drug, strength and quantity the requester asked for | not stated | Pleaded guilty Oct. 21, 2026 to 19 counts of unlawfully distributing or dispensing controlled substances; sentencing set for Jan. 14, 2027, up to 20 years' imprisonment per count | none documented | source |
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Fitchburg Nursing Facility LPN Replaced Hospice Patients' Oxycodone with Lookalike Pills
2026-09-23
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Massachusetts Fitchburg, MA |
A healthcare facility in Fitchburg, MA (skilled nursing and dementia care units; Sept. 2024 – Feb. 2025) | Oxycodone (5 mg and 10 mg tablets) | Took patients' "as needed" oxycodone doses for personal use, then replaced 5 mg pills with lookalike loratadine (an allergy medication) and a memory care patient's 10 mg pills with levothyroxine (a thyroid medication) | not stated | Pleaded guilty Sept. 23, 2026, in federal court in Worcester to one count of tampering with a consumer product (up to 10 years); sentencing set for Jan. 7, 2027 | none documented | source |
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Denver Hospital Case Coordinator Sentenced to 18 Months for Tampering With Patients' Oxycodone Prescriptions
2026-09-17
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Colorado Denver, Colorado |
Case management coordinator with medical-record access, hospital / in-house pharmacy (Denver, CO) | Oxycodone prescriptions belonging to ~127 patients, Dec 2023-Jul 2024 | Used patients' identifying information to pick up their prescriptions, replaced pills with ibuprofen, aspirin, acetaminophen, or loratadine | not stated | Pleaded guilty Mar 12, 2026; sentenced Sept 17, 2026 to 18 months in federal prison | none documented | source |
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Pediatric intensive care nurse sentenced after guilty plea to obtaining morphine by fraud
2026-09
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Maryland Baltimore, MD |
University of Maryland Medical Center Pediatric Intensive Care Unit | morphine | diverted morphine from a pediatric intensive care unit; documented an 8:30 a.m. intravenous morphine dose for a patient but did not document a later dose she told another nurse she had given; pleaded guilty to obtaining morphine by fraud | not stated | Sentenced to 1 year, suspending all but 30 days, with two years of supervised probation; prohibited from caring for children during probation; excluded from state and federal healthcare programs. Pleaded guilty June 20, 2026; sentenced Sept. 9, 2026 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. | none documented | source |
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Celina Pharmacy Owner and Two Pharmacies Banned from Handling Controlled Substances
2026-08-10
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Tennessee Celina, Tennessee |
Dale Hollow Pharmacy + Xpress Pharmacy, Celina, TN | Oxycodone and other opioids, dispensed despite diversion red flags | Dispensed controlled substances without valid prescriptions/outside legitimate practice; falsely billed Medicare | not stated | Consent judgment $450,000 + CS ban through 2040 — entered Aug 3, 2026 (Weir separately sentenced Jun 18, 2026 to 24 months + $1.4M restitution) | $1,419,974 (restitution) | source |
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LeMars Nurse Sentenced for Diverting Fentanyl and Hydromorphone, Falsifying Patient Records
2026-07-09
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Iowa LeMars, Iowa |
Registered nurse / shift supervisor, healthcare facility (LeMars, IA) | Liquid fentanyl and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) | Entered false narcotics orders claiming physician authorization, diverted the drugs for personal use, falsified or failed to complete related patient charting | not stated | Pleaded guilty Mar 9, 2026; sentenced Jul 9, 2026 to 30 months prison + $1,000 fine + 1 year supervised release | $1,000 (criminal fine) | source |
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Tampa Bay Nurse Sentenced to Two Years for Tampering with and Stealing Injectable Opioids
2026-06-11
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Florida Tampa, Florida |
RN, Tampa Bay area hospital | Morphine, hydromorphone, fentanyl (injectable) | Between Nov 2023 and Mar 2024, removed the drugs from their containers, replaced them with saline, and returned the containers to circulation for other patients while using the diverted drugs herself | not stated | Pleaded guilty Aug 6, 2025 to tampering with a consumer product; sentenced Jun 11, 2026 to 2 years federal prison | none documented | source |
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Indiana Emergency Nurse Sentenced Over Fentanyl Documentation Falsification
2026-05
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Indiana Fort Wayne, Indiana |
Parkview Hospital Randallia, Fort Wayne, IN | Fentanyl | In April 2024, while assigned to a patient in extreme pain, recorded in the dispensing system and a nursing app that fentanyl doses were given while her badge activity and other records showed she was not in the patient's room and the patient never received the medication; when confronted, denied taking the drug herself | not stated | Pleaded guilty to three of five charges; sentenced to two years in prison with two years suspended to probation, reported May 2026 | none documented | source |
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