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Showing 730 of 730 cases · page 47 of 92.
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DC emergency nurse's diversion surfaced by automated dispensing cabinet audit
2022-01-14
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District of Columbia Washington, DC |
Emergency room registered nurse, Providence Hospital and United Medical Center, Washington, DC | Narcotics removed from hospital stock; admitted addiction to oxycodone and tramadol | not stated | not stated | not stated | none documented | source |
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Skilled nursing facility registered nurse diverted Ativan tablets from PRN supply for personal use; Vermont license warned
2022-01
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Vermont Gwynedd, PA |
Foulkeways at Gwynedd Skilled Nursing Facility | Ativan | Admitted to diverting Ativan tablets for personal use in 2015 or 2016 on more than one occasion by taking them from the PRN supply at the skilled nursing facility; the Board found this constituted diverting drugs for unauthorized use and failing to exercise independent professional judgment. | not stated | License warned; no other conditions or sanctions imposed. Board found Violations Two and Four proven; Violations One and Three not proven. | none documented | source |
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Physician pleads guilty to illegally prescribing opioids and falsifying records at a Lake Milton medical office
2022-01
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Ohio Lake Milton, OH |
a medical office in Lake Milton, Ohio | opioids including oxycodone and hydrocodone, often in combination with benzodiazepines and stimulants | illegally prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose; used false diagnoses, falsified patient pain intensity scales in medical charts, increased dosages, and prescribed for prolonged periods without evidence of efficacy; ignored urine drug screen results and warning signs of patient addiction and abuse; unlawfully prescribed opioids to two patients who later fatally overdosed and to an individual under the age of 21 | not stated | pleaded guilty to illegally distributing controlled substances, causing the deaths of two patients, unlawfully distributing a controlled substance to a person under the age of 21, and health care fraud; sentencing scheduled for May 17, 2022 | none documented | source |
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Vermont dental practice employee conspired to forge oxycodone prescriptions
2021-12-20
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Vermont | Dental practice in St. Albans, Vermont, and several area retail pharmacies | Oxycodone (controlled substances obtained via 46 fake prescriptions) | not stated | Dental practice employee | not stated | none documented | source |
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Confluence Health Clinic Nurse Tampered with Morphine Vials
2021-12-07
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Washington Moses Lake, Washington |
Outpatient clinic (Confluence Health), Washington | Morphine | Removed morphine from vials with a syringe, replaced it with saline, and glued vial caps back to conceal the tampering | not stated | Pleaded guilty to tampering with a consumer product; sentencing pending | none documented | source |
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South Jersey hospital system settles DEA allegations after 400 oxycodone tablets reported lost or stolen
2021-12
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New Jersey | Hospital inpatient pharmacy, Voorhees | Oxycodone 30 mg (400 tablets) | not stated | Hospital system (institutional registrant) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Contract nurse at Winston-Salem hospital diverted hydromorphone and replaced it with saline
2021-12
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North Carolina Winston-Salem, NC |
Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center | injectable hydromorphone | Removed vials of injectable hydromorphone from an automated dispensing cabinet machine, injected the drug into herself, replaced the drug with saline solution, used glue to replace the lids, and returned the contaminated vials to locked drawers. | not stated | Pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a consumer product; sentenced to four years and six months in federal prison, a $3,000 fine, and three years of supervised release; nursing license suspended. | none documented | source |
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Colorado Nurse Sentenced Over Fake Research-Study Hydromorphone Diversion
2021-12
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Colorado Colorado |
A Colorado hospital | Hydromorphone | Falsely told patients not assigned to her care that she was conducting a PCA-pump study, used a key to open the secured syringe, removed a portion of hydromorphone from it, and returned the syringe to the patient's PCA; obtained the drug from three patients on four occasions and fabricated a false email to law enforcement to support her cover story | not stated | Sentenced to 12 months in federal prison plus one year of supervised release for obtaining controlled substances by fraud and deception | none documented | source |
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