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Showing 164 of 730 cases · page 10 of 21.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Massachusetts Nursing Home Nurse Sentenced for Diluting a Dementia Patient's Morphine
2023-01-13
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Massachusetts Northborough, Massachusetts |
Nursing home, dementia care unit, Worcester County, Massachusetts | Morphine sulfate | Removed morphine from a resident's bottle during an overnight shift and replaced it with water, and the diluted dose was later administered to the patient | not stated | Sentenced January 2023, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, to 52 months in prison | none documented | source |
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Massachusetts Nurse Sentenced for Tampering With Fentanyl at Hospital and Surgery Center
2023-01-10
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Massachusetts Massachusetts |
Hospital post-surgery recovery unit and outpatient vascular surgery center | Fentanyl | Removed fentanyl from surgical-patient vials and replaced it with saline, leaving vials at 1.3-7% of declared concentration | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 5 years' probation (1 year home detention) and a $20,000 fine (Jan. 2023) | $20,000 (criminal fine) | source |
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Pain clinic nurse practitioner conspired to dispense fentanyl by forging a physician's signature on prescriptions
2023-01
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Alabama | a pain management clinic | fentanyl (Subsys and Abstral, Schedule II) | Convicted of conspiring to prescribe fentanyl outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose; admitted to seeing patients without physician oversight while impaired by her own drug use, and to asking a co-defendant nurse practitioner to forge a physician's signature on controlled-substance prescriptions. | not stated | Sentenced to 20 months in federal prison after a 50% sentence reduction for cooperating in the prosecution of the clinic's co-owning physicians. | none documented | source |
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Iowa Nurse Pleads Guilty to Diverting Fentanyl From Elderly Patients' IV Pumps
2022-11-21
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Iowa Clear Lake, Iowa |
Healthcare facility caring for elderly patients, Iowa | Liquid fentanyl | Withdrew fentanyl directly from patients' IV pumps using a syringe, diverting doses meant for their pain management | not stated | Pleaded guilty to acquiring a controlled substance by fraud, deception, and subterfuge; sentencing pending | none documented | source |
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Colorado Nurse Sentenced Over ICU Fentanyl Drip Diversion
2022-11
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Colorado Denver, Colorado |
Sick and Intensive Care Unit, a Denver hospital | Fentanyl | On March 3, 2021, stole most of an IV fentanyl bag from a comatose, intubated patient by lowering the pump's drip rate and failing to accurately document the flow rate, then drained a second fentanyl bag into a cup and refilled the bag with saline before hospital staff interrupted him; admitted diverting fentanyl by labeling it 'waste' since late 2020 | not stated | Sentenced to five years of probation for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and deception | none documented | source |
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Dubuque Pharmacist Sentenced for Stealing and Tampering With Patients' Medications
2022-10-31
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Iowa Dubuque, Iowa |
Retail pharmacy (two Dubuque, Iowa pharmacies) | Controlled-substance capsule medications | Stole from pharmacy inventory and opened already-filled prescription capsules to remove the drug before patients picked them up | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 24 months, $10,000 fine, $9,993 restitution, pharmacy license forfeited | $10,000 (criminal fine) | source |
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St. Louis County Hospital Nurse Pleads Guilty to Fraudulently Obtaining Fentanyl
2022-10-27
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Missouri St. Louis County, Missouri |
Hospital (Mercy Hospital South, St. Louis County, Missouri) | Fentanyl | Fraudulently withdrew fentanyl doses from an automated dispensing machine for personal use | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentencing pending | none documented | source |
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Traveling Nurse Sentenced for Diverting Opioids at Four Montana Facilities
2022-10-13
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Montana Anaconda, Montana |
Hospital and long-term care/rehabilitation facilities, Montana | Oxycodone, hydrocodone | Withdrew opioids from pharmacy stock without administering or documenting them to patients; altered and destroyed medication logs | not stated | Pleaded guilty to 3 counts of unlawfully obtaining controlled substances; sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison plus 1 year supervised release | none documented | source |
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