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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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VA Urgent Care Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Hydromorphone
2020-05-28
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Louisiana Pineville, Louisiana |
VA Medical Center Urgent Care Clinic (Pineville, LA) | Hydromorphone | Logged into narcotics cabinet under patients' names without orders; refilled vials with saline | not stated | Pleaded guilty May 28, 2020 | 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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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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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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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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Pain clinic physician indicted for prescribing fentanyl, oxycodone and other controlled substances without patient examinations
2018-06
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Ohio Hamilton, OH |
Cincinnati Centers for Pain Relief | fentanyl, oxycodone, methadone, morphine | Charged by indictment with unlawful distribution of controlled substances: allegedly prescribing fentanyl, oxycodone, methadone, morphine and other controlled substances on many occasions without patients actually being seen by the physician, and billing Medicare, Medicaid and the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for medically unnecessary prescriptions; also alleged to have received payments from a pharmaceutical company for sham speaking engagements about a fentanyl spray. | not stated | Federal grand jury indictment: 88 counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, one count of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance with death resulting, eight counts of health care fraud and 17 counts of violating the anti-kickback law. Charges only; no finding or plea reported. | none documented | source |
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ED Nurse Transmits Hepatitis C to Patients at Good Samaritan Hospital
2018-05
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Washington Puyallup, Washington |
ED nurse, Good Samaritan Hospital (Puyallup, WA) | Hydromorphone and fentanyl vials | Diverted injectable narcotics for personal use, reused contaminated needles on patients, exposing 12 to hepatitis C | not stated | Pleaded guilty Sept 5, 2023 to tampering with a consumer product; faced up to 10 years | $4,000,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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Former hospital nurse in Douglas charged with stealing and diluting hydromorphone and meperidine
2017-10
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Wyoming Douglas, WY |
Memorial Hospital of Converse County | hydromorphone (Dilaudid) and meperidine (Demerol) | Alleged tampering with consumer products by removing some or all of hydromorphone and meperidine and replacing the drugs with saline solution; alleged acquiring Schedule II controlled substances by removing them from their containers and replacing them with saline solution. A hospital spokesman said the former nurse admitted to stealing hydromorphone. | not stated | Pleaded not guilty to four counts; placed on administrative leave and license suspended by the Wyoming State Board of Nursing; remains free on an unsecured bond and a trial was set. | none documented | source |
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