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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Virginia Nurse License Suspended Over Roanoke-Area Nursing Home Opioid Diversion
2020
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Virginia Roanoke and Lynchburg, Virginia |
Pheasant Ridge Nursing and Rehab Center, Roanoke, VA; Central Healthcare, Lynchburg, VA | Opioids | Diverted opioids for personal and unauthorized consumption across multiple healthcare employers, including LewisGale, Carilion, and a home-health agency | not stated | Virginia Board of Nursing suspended the nursing license, reported as 2020; source states only the year | none documented | source |
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Bucks County Dentist Pays $150,000 for Opioid Diversion and Recordkeeping Violations
2019-12-31
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Pennsylvania Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
Private dental practice | Schedule II controlled substances (opioids) | Dentist diverted a package of controlled substances for personal use and failed to maintain required inventory and transfer records | not stated | Civil settlement - $150,000 penalty and 4-year prescribing ban | $150,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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Haverhill Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Hospice Patient's Morphine
2019-12-18
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Massachusetts Amesbury, Massachusetts |
Nursing home / hospice care facility | Morphine sulfate | Nurse extracted morphine from a hospice patient's prescribed bottles for personal use and replaced it with cough syrup to mask the theft | not stated | Sentenced to 54 months in federal prison | 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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Air-Evacuation Paramedic Tampered with Fentanyl and Ketamine Vials
2019-12-09
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Oklahoma Weatherford, Oklahoma |
Emergency air-evacuation service (Weatherford, OK) | Fentanyl and ketamine vials | Removed drug from vials, replaced with sterile saline | not stated | Sentenced Dec 9, 2019 — 6 months + 3 yrs supervised release | 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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Registered nurse alleged to have diverted controlled substances from a rehabilitation facility in Burlington
2019-12
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Wisconsin Burlington, WI |
a rehabilitation facility (Facility B) | controlled substances | Alleged to have diverted controlled substances from the facility on or around December 3, 2019. | not stated | License surrender accepted; final decision and order dated September 10, 2020; no petition for reinstatement for at least one year and $632 costs before any application is considered. | none documented | source |
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Chicago pharmacy technician sentenced to five years for stealing and selling hydrocodone
2019-11-21
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Illinois | Retail discount pharmacy, Chicago | Hydrocodone (approximately 56,108 pills) | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Last reviewed: September 2026 · Content is educational, not legal advice.