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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Alabama Pharmacist Sentenced for Diverting Tens of Thousands of Oxycodone Pills from His Own Pharmacy
2023-11-03
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Alabama Gadsden, Alabama |
Retail pharmacy (Midtown Pharmacy), Gadsden, Alabama | Oxycodone and hydrocodone | Pharmacist in charge over-ordered oxycodone from distributors, diverted the surplus stock bottles, and repackaged and resold the pills outside the pharmacy | not stated | Sentenced November 2023, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, to 54 months in prison | $110,620 (forfeiture) | source |
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Michigan Pharmacist Sentenced for Selling 25,000+ Opioid Pills from His Own Pharmacy
2023-02-09
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Michigan Madison Heights, Michigan |
Retail pharmacy (Great Health Pharmacy), Madison Heights, Michigan | Oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone-acetaminophen, and promethazine with codeine | Pharmacist filled cash prescriptions for a patient recruiter, including in the names of people who never visited the pharmacy, and sold pharmacy stock bottles directly with no prescription | not stated | Sentenced February 2023, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, to 84 months in federal prison | $1,200,000 (forfeiture) | 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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Dothan Pharmacy Owner Sentenced for Selling Opioids Without Prescriptions
2021-04-27
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Alabama Dothan, Alabama |
Independently owned retail pharmacy (Allen's Pharmacy), Dothan, Alabama | Oxycodone and hydrocodone (Schedule II) | Pharmacy owner personally sold controlled substances to individuals for cash outside any valid prescription | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 87 months in federal prison and 3 years of supervised release | none documented | source |
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Montana Pharmacist Pleads Guilty to Filling Fraudulent Opioid Prescriptions for Himself
2020-07-30
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Montana Ennis, Montana |
Pharmacist-in-charge, Ennis Pharmacy (Ennis, MT) | Hydrocodone (Norco 10-325mg) | Filled self-directed prescriptions never authorized by the named physician, and altered a friend's prescription strength and quantity before filling it himself | not stated | Pleaded guilty July 2020 to dispensing a controlled substance by a practitioner and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud; sentencing set for Nov. 19, 2020 | $125,000 (civil penalty) | 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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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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Home-Infusion Pharmacy Tech Diluted Hospice Patients' IV Opioids
2018-02-21
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Alabama Birmingham, Alabama |
ContinuumRx of Central Alabama, home-infusion pharmacy (Birmingham, AL) | Morphine sulfate and hydromorphone — IV compounding vials | Withdrew drug with syringe, refilled vials with saline/sterile water, returned to inventory | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Feb 21, 2018 to 5 years in federal prison | none documented | source |
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