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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Buffalo-Area Physician Diverted Controlled Substances Through Fraudulent Prescriptions to Associates
2020-03-05
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New York Buffalo, New York |
Physician contracted to area hospitals; fraudulent prescriptions issued outside legitimate patient care | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, and amphetamine | Issued fraudulent prescriptions in his own name and in the names of non-patients (coworkers, associates) in exchange for cocaine, cash, and a share of the pills | not stated | Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances; sentencing scheduled | none documented | source |
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Anchorage nurse practitioner charged with manslaughter and drug distribution for opioid prescriptions without office visits
2020-03
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Alaska Anchorage, AK |
Surgical Specialists of Alaska | diazepam, oxycodone, tramadol, hydrocodone, and Ambien | Alleged: used position as a nurse practitioner to fraudulently give a patient and others vast quantities of prescription opioids; routinely prescribed controlled substances to friends and acquaintances without office visits, chart notes, rationalization, or explanation, often via text or the internet; agreed to meet to write a prescription after a request for pain pills. | not stated | Indicted on 18 felony counts including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide plus drug distribution counts; pleaded not guilty; license suspended by the Alaska Board of Nursing. An outside review found no justification for many of the prescriptions; the nursing board had previously suspended the practitioner's license. | none documented | source |
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Farmville pharmacy and pharmacist-in-charge ordered to pay $600,000 and permanently barred from dispensing controlled substances
2020-02-03
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North Carolina | Independent pharmacy in Farmville | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, methadone and potentiators such as diazepam, alprazolam and zolpidem | not stated | Pharmacy owner and pharmacist-in-charge | not stated | none documented | source |
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Rawlins physician charged with prescribing oxycodone and other controlled substances outside legitimate medical practice
2020-02
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Wyoming Rawlins, WY |
Practice | oxycodone, alprazolam, tramadol, promethazine with codeine, amphetamine/dextroamphetamine, hydrocodone | Charged in a 32-count federal indictment with dispensing controlled substances from 2014 to 2017 often without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice, including to persons under 21 and to pregnant women under 21; the state medical board found in 2017 that the physician was inappropriately prescribing controlled substances for other than legitimate purposes, prescribing to known abusers, and offering drugs in exchange for sex. | not stated | Federal criminal charges (32 counts) with a guilty plea scheduled; 2017 license suspension; voluntary relinquishment of license accepted August 2018. | none documented | source |
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Iowa Nursing Home Nurse Sentenced for Stealing Patients' Pain Medication
2020-01-28
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Iowa Manchester, Iowa |
Nursing home (Manchester, IA) | Hydrocodone, morphine, oxycodone, codeine, tramadol | Took pills from 14+ patients by deception; diluted liquid morphine with mouthwash | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Jan 28, 2020 to 4 years | $593 (restitution) | source |
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Casper pharmacy agreed to $1 million civil settlement over controlled substance dispensing allegations
2020-01
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Wyoming | Community pharmacy in Casper, Wyoming | Narcotic prescription medications | not stated | Retail pharmacy (Osco Pharmacy) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Virginia Nurse License Suspended Over Roanoke-Area Nursing Home Opioid Diversion
2020
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Virginia Roanoke and Lynchburg, Virginia |
Pheasant Ridge Nursing and Rehab Center, Roanoke, VA; Central Healthcare, Lynchburg, VA | Opioids | Diverted opioids for personal and unauthorized consumption across multiple healthcare employers, including LewisGale, Carilion, and a home-health agency | not stated | Virginia Board of Nursing suspended the nursing license, reported as 2020; source states only the year | none documented | source |
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Bucks County Dentist Pays $150,000 for Opioid Diversion and Recordkeeping Violations
2019-12-31
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Pennsylvania Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
Private dental practice | Schedule II controlled substances (opioids) | Dentist diverted a package of controlled substances for personal use and failed to maintain required inventory and transfer records | not stated | Civil settlement - $150,000 penalty and 4-year prescribing ban | $150,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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Haverhill Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Hospice Patient's Morphine
2019-12-18
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Massachusetts Amesbury, Massachusetts |
Nursing home / hospice care facility | Morphine sulfate | Nurse extracted morphine from a hospice patient's prescribed bottles for personal use and replaced it with cough syrup to mask the theft | not stated | Sentenced to 54 months in federal prison | none documented | source |
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Connecticut Pharmacist Admits Tampering with Home-Infusion Narcotics
2019-12-13
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Connecticut Wolcott, Connecticut |
Home/hospice infusion compounding pharmacy (Connecticut) | Hydromorphone and morphine sulfate infusion vials | Withdrew narcotics with syringe, reinjected saline, resealed vials with crimping tools | not stated | Pleaded guilty Dec 13, 2019; faced up to 10 years | none documented | source |
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Air-Evacuation Paramedic Tampered with Fentanyl and Ketamine Vials
2019-12-09
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Oklahoma Weatherford, Oklahoma |
Emergency air-evacuation service (Weatherford, OK) | Fentanyl and ketamine vials | Removed drug from vials, replaced with sterile saline | not stated | Sentenced Dec 9, 2019 — 6 months + 3 yrs supervised release | none documented | source |
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Jacksonville Nurse Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Injectable Painkillers
2019-12-06
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Florida Jacksonville, Florida |
Jacksonville-area hospitals (Jacksonville, FL) | Hydromorphone (Dilaudid) injectable syringes | Extracted drug from syringes, refilled with saline, returned to inventory | not stated | Pleaded guilty Dec 6, 2019; faced up to 10 years | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse alleged to have diverted controlled substances from a rehabilitation facility in Burlington
2019-12
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Wisconsin Burlington, WI |
a rehabilitation facility (Facility B) | controlled substances | Alleged to have diverted controlled substances from the facility on or around December 3, 2019. | not stated | License surrender accepted; final decision and order dated September 10, 2020; no petition for reinstatement for at least one year and $632 costs before any application is considered. | none documented | source |
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Chicago pharmacy technician sentenced to five years for stealing and selling hydrocodone
2019-11-21
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Illinois | Retail discount pharmacy, Chicago | Hydrocodone (approximately 56,108 pills) | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Chicago Pharmacy Technician Sentenced for Stealing 56,000 Hydrocodone Pills
2019-11-20
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Illinois Chicago, Illinois |
Pharmacy technician, Allcare Discount Pharmacy (Chicago, IL) | Hydrocodone — approx. 56,108 pills | Stole pills with a co-defendant, falsified inventory records to conceal the theft, sold the pills for profit | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Nov 2019 to 5 years in federal prison | $250,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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ICU Nurse Sentenced for Stealing Fentanyl at Parker Adventist Hospital
2019-11-13
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Colorado Parker, Colorado |
ICU, Parker Adventist Hospital (Parker, CO) | Fentanyl — dispensing-cabinet cassettes | Used the automated dispensing cabinet to access fentanyl, withdrew it with a syringe and saline flushes, sometimes reinjected saline into the cassette to conceal the theft; flagged by an April 2018 audit for high fentanyl use/waste | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Nov 13, 2019 to 44 months in federal prison | none documented | source |
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Pharmacist stole Schedule IV controlled substances from Institutional Care Pharmacy
2019-11
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Ohio Tiffin, OH |
Institutional Care Pharmacy | zolpidem, modafinil, clonazepam, tramadol, lorazepam, alprazolam | stole controlled substances from employer; observed on security camera; admitted stealing; retrieved stolen drugs from purse and residence | not stated | license suspended indefinitely; summary suspension removed | none documented | source |
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Pain Clinic Nurse Accused of Replacing Stolen Fentanyl Vials
2019-10-31
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Michigan Greenville, MI |
Outpatient pain management clinic (Michigan Pain Consultants, Greenville, Michigan) | Fentanyl | Stole vials of liquid fentanyl after hours, refilled them with saline, and falsified administration records to conceal the loss | not stated | Michigan LARA summary suspension order, October 31, 2019, following the nurse's admission | none documented | source |
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Magoffin County Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Hospital Medication
2019-10-30
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Kentucky Salyersville, Kentucky |
Paul B. Hall Regional Medical Center (Salyersville/Magoffin County, KY) | Butorphanol tartrate (Stadol) | Removed vials from drug supply area, refilled with saline | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Oct 30, 2019 to 24 months | none documented | source |
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St. Vincent Healthcare Nurse Swapped Patient's Pain Pills for Acetaminophen
2019-10-29
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Montana Billings, Montana |
St. Vincent Healthcare (Billings, MT) | Hydrocodone (patient's prescribed pain pills) | Swapped patient's hydrocodone pills for over-the-counter acetaminophen | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Oct 29, 2019 to 4 years' probation | none documented | source |
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Queens Supervising Pharmacist Sentenced for Filling Forged Oxycodone Prescriptions
2019-08-30
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New York Richmond Hill, Queens, New York |
Retail pharmacy | Oxycodone 30 mg tablets | Supervising pharmacist knowingly filled forged prescriptions and sold additional pills for cash outside any valid prescription | not stated | Sentenced to 4 years in prison; pharmacist license surrendered | none documented | source |
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St. Francis Hospital Nurse Turned Off Infusion Pumps to Divert Narcotics
2019-08-14
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Connecticut Hartford, CT |
Hospital (St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut) | Hydromorphone, fentanyl, and morphine | Shut off patients' narcotic infusion pumps for hours at a time and diverted the withheld doses; falsified controlled substance and medical records | not stated | Connecticut consent order, August 14, 2019: $2,000 civil penalty, one-year license suspension, five years' probation | $2,000 (civil penalty) | source |
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Nursing Facility LPN Took Six Patients' Oxycodone
2019-08-14
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Connecticut Glastonbury, CT |
Skilled nursing facility (Salmon Brook Health Care, Glastonbury, Connecticut) | Oxycodone | Took oxycodone tablets intended for six patients and failed to accurately document their medication records | not stated | Connecticut consent order, August 14, 2019: two years' probation, no solo practice, remedial coursework | none documented | source |
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Wausau Physician Pleads Guilty to Diverting Fentanyl Patches from Patients
2019-07-18
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Wisconsin Wausau, Wisconsin |
Hospital-affiliated family practice clinic | Fentanyl patches | Physician prescribed fentanyl patches to patients without medical need and had them return the filled patches to him for personal use | not stated | Guilty plea; sentencing pending at time of report | none documented | source |
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Hartford Hospital Nurse Disciplined for Diverting Opiates
2019-07-17
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Connecticut Hartford, CT |
Hospital (Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut) | Opiates | Diverted opiates from the hospital for personal use over roughly four months | not stated | Connecticut consent order, July 17, 2019: four years' probation, one-year bar on controlled-substance access | none documented | source |
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Georgia Pharmacy Owner Charged Over Fake Prescriptions and Unauthorized Controlled Substance Distribution
2019-07-15
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Georgia Baxley, Georgia |
Fulghum Discount Drugs, Baxley, GA | Controlled substances distributed without a valid prescription | Beginning as early as January 2015 and continuing until at least October 2018, created fake prescriptions purportedly for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and billed those programs, and separately distributed controlled substances to individuals without a physician's prescription | not stated | Charged via criminal information July 15, 2019, with Conspiracy with Objects of Healthcare Fraud and Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances; up to 5 years in federal prison if convicted | none documented | source |
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Georgia Pharmacist-in-Charge Charged Over False Statements in Controlled-Substance Dispensing Audit
2019-07-15
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Georgia Darien, Georgia |
A pharmacy in Darien, GA | Controlled substances dispensed from prescriptions written by high-volume prescribers | From 2015 through 2017, filled a large number of controlled-substance prescriptions from high-volume prescribers, then drafted false and fraudulent statements in documents that the DEA would review as part of a regulatory compliance audit of her dispensing history | not stated | Charged via criminal information July 15, 2019, with False Statements Related to Healthcare; up to 5 years in federal prison if convicted | none documented | source |
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Hartford hospital nurse placed on four-year probation for diverting opiates
2019-07
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Connecticut | Hartford Hospital | Opiates (unspecified), plus alcohol misuse | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Connecticut LPN placed on probation after Massachusetts license suspension for diverting opioids
2019-07
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Connecticut | Nursing employment in Massachusetts, September 2016 to January 2018 | Roxanol (morphine), Dilaudid (hydromorphone) and/or oxycodone | not stated | Licensed practical nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Minnesota pharmacy chain pays $225,000 to resolve Controlled Substances Act claims after pharmacist-in-charge diverted opioids
2019-06-11
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Minnesota | Retail pharmacy chain in Minnesota | Schedule II opioids including oxycodone and hydrocodone | not stated | Pharmacist-in-charge of a retail store (employee); employer pharmacy chain settled civil claims | not stated | none documented | source |
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Nurse practitioner forged physicians' signatures to issue unauthorized controlled-substance prescriptions at two Montgomery pill-mill practices
2019-06
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Alabama Montgomery, AL |
Family Practice and Mercy Family Health Care, Montgomery medical practices | fentanyl, hydrocodone, oxycodone, alprazolam, and methadone | Convicted at trial of issuing unnecessary and illegitimate prescriptions for controlled substances and, because she lacked authority as a nurse practitioner to refill Schedule II prescriptions without physician approval, forging physicians' signatures on those prescriptions; the unnecessary office visits and unlawful prescriptions were billed to insurers. Conduct spanned 2013 through 2016, initially at a Montgomery medical practice and later at a second practice she opened. | not stated | Convicted by federal jury on 17 counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances, one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, four counts of health care fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud; sentenced to 10 years and received enhancements for obstructing justice and abuse of trust. | none documented | source |
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Physician found guilty of operating a pill mill and prescribing opioids without legitimate medical purpose
2019-06
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Ohio Canton, OH |
medical office in Jackson Township | opioids and other drugs | prescribed opioids and other drugs without a legitimate medical purpose; operated a pill mill; aggravated trafficking in drugs; tampering with records; illegal processing of drug documents | not stated | Found guilty on 187 counts; sentencing scheduled for July 3, 2019 | none documented | source |
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Louisiana federal settlement with drug distributor over civil penalty claims
2019-05-24
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Louisiana | Wholesale drug distribution; matter handled by the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana and DEA | Oxycodone (release is tagged to oxycodone; excerpt gives no further drug detail) | not stated | Pharmaceutical drug distributor (company, not an individual) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Charlotte pharmacy technician convicted of embezzling oxycodone via fraudulent prescription
2019-05-09
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North Carolina | Retail chain pharmacy drive-thru, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County | Oxycodone (with a Percocet prescription also presented) | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Physician at Green Mountain Family Medicine diverted controlled substances by writing staff members' prescriptions for personal and family use
2019-05
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Vermont Rutland and White River Junction, VT |
Green Mountain Family Medicine | Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen (Schedule II), Lorazepam (Schedule IV), Diazepam (Schedule IV), Tramadol (Schedule IV), Carisoprodol (Schedule IV) | The physician admitted to writing and receiving at least nine controlled-substance prescriptions in staff members' names for his own use from May 2013 through October 2015, writing at least four such prescriptions in staff members' names for an immediate family member's use, and altering staff medical records to include false information about the prescriptions. | not stated | The Board reprimanded the physician; suspended his Vermont medical license for five years with time served from June 21, 2016; permanently prohibited him from prescribing Schedule II-V controlled substances in Vermont; required practice monitoring, treatment, and a $9,000 administrative penalty. | none documented | source |
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Las Vegas nurse sentenced for illegally prescribing hydrocodone and oxycodone in a cash-for-prescriptions scheme
2019-05
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Nevada Las Vegas, NV |
not stated | hydrocodone and oxycodone | Alleged and admitted conduct: arranged with a surgical technician and a physician to give hydrocodone and oxycodone to patients without a legitimate medical purpose in exchange for cash, and wrote illegal prescriptions without a medical purpose; also billed Medicare and Medicaid for prescriptions for lidocaine, modafinil and diclofenac sodium without having examined the patient. | not stated | Pleaded guilty to eight counts of distribution of a controlled substance and eight counts of health care fraud; sentenced to more than six years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $3,749,121 in restitution. | none documented | source |
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Utah County sheriff's evidence technician charged with taking drugs slated for destruction
2019-05
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Utah | Utah County Sheriff's Office evidence handling | Hydrocodone or OxyContin | not stated | Former forensic technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Morgantown pharmacist sentenced to 121 months for distributing oxycodone outside professional practice
2019-05
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West Virginia | Pharmacy practice in Morgantown / Monongalia County, WV | Oxycodone (more than 7,400 grams) | not stated | Licensed pharmacist | not stated | none documented | source |
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Boise Hospital Nurse Sentenced for Diverting Fentanyl Vials from an Automated Dispensing Cabinet
2019-04-16
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Idaho Boise, ID |
Hospital, Boise, ID | Fentanyl (100 mcg/2 mL vials) | Accessed an automated dispensing cabinet on at least 28 occasions between Sept. 29 and Nov. 14, 2017, falsifying and manipulating system records to conceal the withdrawals | not stated | Pleaded guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud; sentenced Apr 16, 2019, to three years of probation | none documented | source |
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Lewiston pharmacy technician sentenced to 54 months after stealing nearly 60,000 pills from employer
2019-04-09
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Idaho | Retail pharmacy in Lewiston | Hydrocodone, oxycodone, lorazepam | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Rhode Island VA Nurse Sentenced Over Liquid Opioid Tampering
2019-04-05
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Rhode Island Providence, Rhode Island |
Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI | Morphine and other liquid opioids | On several occasions in October and November 2017, accessed vials of liquid opioids designated for patient use, removed them from a locked storage cart, and stole the prescriptions for personal use, leaving behind vials filled with saline | not stated | Pleaded guilty December 7, 2018, to tampering with a consumer product and acquiring a controlled substance by deception; sentenced April 5, 2019, to 24 months in federal prison plus 2 years of supervised release | none documented | source |
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Boise hospital nurse diverted fentanyl vials by falsifying dispensing-system records
2019-04
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Idaho Boise, ID |
a hospital in Boise, Idaho | fentanyl, 100 mcg/2 mL vials | Employed as a registered nurse at a Boise hospital with access to a system that monitored the distribution and management of prescription medications, including controlled substances, the nurse accessed the machine and removed fentanyl 100 mcg/2 mL vials on at least 28 occasions by falsifying and manipulating information in the system; the case was charged as obtaining controlled substances by fraud. | not stated | Pleaded guilty on Oct. 25, 2018, and was sentenced to three years of probation, per the U.S. Attorney's office; investigated by a DEA-led Tactical Diversion Squad. | none documented | source |
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Hilo clinic physician and employees accused of unlawfully distributing opioids
2019-02
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Hawaii Hilo, HI |
a medical clinic in Hilo | hydrocodone, oxycodone, fentanyl and morphine | accused of prescribing and unlawfully distributing powerful narcotics, sedatives and opioids such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, fentanyl and morphine | not stated | arrested; scheduled to stand trial in U.S. District Court in June | none documented | source |
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Army hospital pharmacy technician admitted stealing and distributing hydrocodone and oxycodone
2019-02
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Hawaii Oahu, Hawaii |
Tripler Army Medical Center | hydrocodone or oxycodone | charged with and later admitted stealing and distributing 8,505 pills containing five milligrams of either hydrocodone or oxycodone from the hospital's pharmacy vault | not stated | charged; later admitted; serving a one-year sentence in a federal correctional institution in California | none documented | source |
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KU Hospital Pharmacy Tech Stole 483 Bags of Fentanyl
2018-12-10
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Kansas Kansas City, Kansas |
Pharmacy technician, University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City, KS) | Fentanyl — 483 IV bags | Used AcuDose cabinet-stocking and expired-medication disposal duties to divert bags; flagged by internal audit's high transaction count | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 3 years probation + $4,300+ restitution; pharmacy license revoked | $4,300 (restitution) | source |
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Tribal pharmacy in St. Ignatius paid civil penalty after about 2,500 oxycodone pills went missing
2018-12
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Montana | Tribal health department pharmacy, St. Ignatius | Oxycodone (approximately 2,500 pills stolen or unaccounted for) | not stated | not stated | not stated | none documented | source |
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Arizona pharmacist and technician sentenced for diverting over 200,000 opioid tablets through two Phoenix-area pharmacies
2018-11-30
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Arizona | Two pharmacist-owned retail pharmacies in the Phoenix metro area | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, alprazolam, promethazine with codeine | not stated | Pharmacist (pharmacy owner) and pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | 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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Every case states When (date) and Where (state) — 730 of 730. Beyond that, a blank cell means the source record does not state that fact, not that it did not happen:
- Setting: stated in 649 of 730 cases (89%)
- Drug: stated in 657 of 730 cases (90%)
- Method: stated in 474 of 730 cases (65%)
- Prosecution status: stated in 474 of 730 cases (65%); a documented penalty (fine, settlement, or restitution) exists for 77 of 730 cases (11%)
- Role: stated in only 255 of 730 cases (35%) — filtering or sorting by role silently hides the rest of the registry, which may still describe the same role in prose without a structured field
Why: documented failure modes
A separate text analysis of the 723 case summaries found 371 cases (51.3%) matching at least one named failure-mode pattern below. 352 cases (48.7% of 723) matched none of these categories - most of these are short board-order summaries ("licensee diverted controlled substances from their employer") that state an outcome without describing a mechanism, not cases where no failure occurred. A case can match zero, one, or several categories — these are corpus-level counts, not a per-case tag, and are not used as a row filter above: reproducing the exact category membership per case from the stored patterns did not exactly match this file's hand-curated counts on independent re-check, so no individual case here is labeled with a "why" that this code cannot verify.
Drug swapped for a substitute and the container returned to circulation
137 of 723
Text names an act of replacing/refilling the drug with a named substitute (saline, water, an OTC pill, a cleaning product, etc.), OR uses swap/dilute/tamper to describe the same act, so the altered container went back into use looking unchanged.
Outright theft or embezzlement of stock (no substitution described)
120 of 723
Text uses stole/stealing/embezzled to describe removal of controlled substances.
Records, charts, orders, inventories, or receipts falsified to conceal the diversion
58 of 723
Text uses a form of "falsif-" within 60 characters of a record-type noun (chart, inventory, transaction, receipt, prescription, etc.).
Prescriptions fraudulent, forged, invalid, or written outside legitimate medical practice
53 of 723
Text explicitly characterizes the prescription(s) as fraudulent, forged, invalid, or issued outside legitimate medical practice (including "pill mill" language).
Automated dispensing cabinet used as the point of exploitation
30 of 723
Text names an automated dispensing cabinet/machine, or the acronym ADC, as part of the mechanism.
Waste/wastage claim used to cover the diversion, or wastage not witnessed
38 of 723
Text describes recording or claiming drug as "waste" (when it was not), pulling drug from a waste stream, or wastage that was not independently witnessed.
Cancelled, voided, or falsely entered dispensing-system transactions to hide the removal
11 of 723
Text describes cancelling, voiding, or falsely entering a system transaction (an order, a return-to-stock entry, a cancel entry) specifically to conceal a removal.
Facility-level failure to maintain accurate inventory or required records (not one employee concealing a theft)
24 of 723
Text states the FACILITY (not an individual concealing personal use) failed to maintain required inventory/records, or names a recordkeeping violation/negligent recordkeeping as the basis for the government action.
Drug obtained using a false identity, a fictitious patient, or impersonation
11 of 723
Text describes using a fictitious patient profile, a false name/identity, stolen patient information, or impersonating a licensed prescriber to obtain the drug.
Known or suspected loss/theft/diversion not reported to DEA or a licensing board
10 of 723
Text states a failure to notify or report a loss, theft, or suspected diversion to a regulator.
Disclaimer
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Last reviewed: September 2026 · Content is educational, not legal advice.