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Showing 224 of 730 cases · page 22 of 28.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Psychiatrist found to have unlawfully possessed controlled substances taken back from patients and kept no required records
2013-09
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New Mexico Albuquerque, NM |
private psychiatric practice | controlled substances including fentanyl patches, oxycodone, OxyContin, methadone, Suboxone, hydrocodone, benzodiazepines, and Lyrica samples | Took back and retained already-dispensed controlled substances directly from patients outside the CSA's closed distribution system, and failed to maintain any inventory or records of the controlled substances he received or the drug samples kept in his office; a separate allegation that he redistributed these drugs to other patients was investigated but found unproven. | not stated | DEA registration renewal granted subject to a six-month suspension and restriction to non-narcotic controlled substances only; DATA-Waiver authority to prescribe Suboxone/Subutex revoked. | none documented | source |
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Sweetbriar Assisted Living nurse sentenced for hydrocodone theft and falsifying records
2013-06
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West Virginia Charleston, WV |
Sweetbriar Assisted Living | hydrocodone | obtaining hydrocodone by fraud; admitted stealing hydrocodone intended for patients for personal use and falsifying records to cover up the theft | not stated | sentenced to five years of probation; previously pleaded guilty | none documented | source |
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South Burlington physician pleaded guilty to prescription fraud after writing prescriptions under fictitious names
2012-11
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Vermont | Primary care practice, South Burlington; retail pharmacies in Chittenden and Addison counties | Adderall and Vicodin | not stated | Physician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Nursing Home Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with a Dementia Patient's Morphine — Kansas, 2012
2012-02-03
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Kansas Topeka, Kansas |
Rolling Hills Health Center, Topeka, KS | Morphine (also hydrocodone at an earlier facility) | Stole morphine from an elderly dementia patient's bottle, diluted it with tap water | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 3 years federal prison; surrendered nursing license | none documented | source |
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Nursing Facility Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Patients' Morphine — Kansas, 2012
2012-01-24
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Kansas Salina, Kansas |
Holiday Resort Nursing Facility, Salina, KS | Morphine | Removed morphine from patient vials with syringes, replaced with sodium chloride solution | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 3 years federal prison | none documented | source |
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Psychiatrist reprimanded for prescribing Ritalin to her spouse without medical justification
2011-12
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California Ridgecrest, CA |
Ridgecrest, CA | Ritalin | Admitted to prescribing Ritalin to her spouse without adequate documentation of medical necessity. | not stated | Reprimand by the Maryland Board of Physicians, taken reciprocally after the Illinois Board of Medicine fined her for the same conduct | none documented | source |
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Sisseton pharmacy technician pleaded guilty to health care fraud over hydrocodone theft
2011-11-28
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South Dakota | Tribal health care center, Sisseton, South Dakota | Hydrocodone (approximately 10 pills) | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Internal medicine physician summarily suspended over chronic cocaine and opiate use
2011-11
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Maryland Baltimore, MD |
Facility | cocaine and opiates | The Board determined that the physician's chronic and active personal use of cocaine and opiates constituted a substantial likelihood of risk of serious harm to the public health, safety and welfare. | not stated | Summary suspension of medical license | none documented | source |
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