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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Birmingham Pharmacy Technician Tampered with Opioid IV Bags Prepared for Palliative Care Patients
2018-02
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Alabama Birmingham, AL |
Home-infusion pharmacy, Birmingham, AL | Morphine sulfate and hydromorphone hydrochloride | Removed drugs from vials used to mix palliative-care IV bags and replaced them with another liquid, knowing diluted bags would reach patients | not stated | Sentenced to five years in prison for tampering with opioids intended for IV fluid | none documented | source |
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Massachusetts Paramedic Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Ambulance Fentanyl
2017-06-22
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Massachusetts Rowley, Massachusetts |
Private ambulance company (Rowley, MA) | Fentanyl — ambulance patient supply, 650+ vials | Stole vials outright for personal use; separately withdrew fentanyl from patient-bound vials and replaced with saline | not stated | Pleaded guilty Jun 22, 2017; sentenced Nov 2017 to 30 months + 3 years supervised release | none documented | source |
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Wayne County LPN Sentenced to Jail for Diverting Oxycodone from Nursing Home Patients
2016-01-06
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New York Newark, NY |
Nursing home (DeMay Living Center, Newark, NY) | Oxycodone and other narcotic pills | Falsified medication administration records for 14 residents while diverting the pills for personal use | not stated | Pleaded guilty June 2015; sentenced to 99 days in jail January 6, 2016 after violating plea conditions | none documented | source |
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Minnesota Paramedic Stole Ambulance Morphine, Replaced It with Saline
2015-07-16
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Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Allina Health ambulance service (Minneapolis, MN) | Morphine and hydromorphone — ambulance patient supply | Withdrew drug with syringe from ambulance stock, refilled vials with saline | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Jul 16, 2015 to 3 years probation | none documented | source |
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Hospital nurse diverted hydrocodone intended for a patient and falsified records
2015-06
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West Virginia Parkersburg, WV |
Camden Clark Medical Center | hydrocodone | Admitted to taking two 5 mg hydrocodone pills intended for a patient, keeping them for personal use, and falsely documenting in the patient file that the medication had been given to the patient. | not stated | Pleaded guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, and subterfuge; terminated from employment on June 27, 2015; faces up to four years in federal prison; sentencing set for October 1, 2018. | none documented | source |
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Twin Falls Pharmacy Technician Sentenced for Selling Stolen Oxycodone
2015-05-19
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Idaho Twin Falls, Idaho |
Retail pharmacy (Twin Falls, ID) | Oxycodone and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) tablets | Stole bottles from pharmacy stock; arranged street sales via text and glove-box drops | not stated | Sentenced May 19, 2015 to 12 months + 1 day in federal prison | $1,000 (criminal fine) | source |
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Twin Falls Pharmacy Technician Sold Stolen Oxycodone and Hydromorphone Tablets from Pharmacy Stock
2015-05
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Idaho Twin Falls, ID |
Retail pharmacy, Twin Falls, ID | Oxycodone and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) tablets | Stole bottles of controlled-substance prescriptions from pharmacy stock, arranged sales by text message, and left the bottles in a car glove box in the pharmacy parking lot in exchange for cash | not stated | Sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison, three years supervised release, and a $1,000 fine | none documented | source |
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Emergency room nurse sentenced for stealing prescription drugs from patient accounts via a hospital dispensing system
2014-03
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Maine York, ME |
York Hospital emergency room | prescription drugs | Used their own name to access a computerized dispensing system at the hospital and withdrew drugs in the names of emergency room patients; also falsified private records. | not stated | Pleaded guilty to 10 counts of stealing drugs and three counts of falsifying private records; sentenced to two years in prison with all but six months suspended, a consecutive two-year term all suspended, four years of probation, $4,000 in fines and $8,318 in restitution, and prohibited from employment giving access to controlled substances; nursing license under suspension. | none documented | source |
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