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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Three former Trinity Hospital hospice nurses accused of stealing drugs and endangering patients
2017-09
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North Dakota Minot, ND |
Trinity Hospital's Home Health and Hospice program | morphine and hydromorphine; drugs prescribed for hospice patients | Accused of stealing drugs prescribed for hospice patients; two charged with endangering a patient by diluting medication or giving morphine instead of prescribed hydromorphine; alleged conspiracy to steal drugs; one allegedly confessed to ingesting unused medication and self-administering for over a year; investigation found multiple drug diversions in records of 104 patients. | not stated | Charged with felony offenses; two voluntarily surrendered nursing licenses after admitting to board allegations; one arrested and signed promise to appear. | none documented | source |
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Ogden hospital emergency room nurse charged with diverting morphine and dilaudid and tampering with vials, exposing patients to hepatitis C
2017-07
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Utah Ogden, UT |
McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden and Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Layton | morphine and dilaudid | Alleged diversion of controlled substances by injecting herself with morphine and dilaudid and then administering the tampered drugs to patients | not stated | Indicted on eight counts of tampering with a consumer product and eight counts of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance; surrendered nursing license in November 2015 | none documented | source |
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Scottsdale Surgery Center Nurse Surrenders License After Diverting Fentanyl and Dilaudid
2017-05-02
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Arizona Scottsdale, AZ |
Ambulatory surgery center (Scottsdale, AZ) | Fentanyl and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) | Tampered with narcotic vials on hand at the surgery center and refilled them with sterile saline to conceal the theft | not stated | Surrendered Arizona nursing license May 2, 2017; later indicted on 23 drug-diversion felony counts | none documented | source |
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Hospital nurse accused of embezzling Dilaudid and morphine for diversion
2017-05
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Mississippi Jackson, MS |
a metro-area hospital | Dilaudid (hydromorphone) and morphine | alleged diversion/embezzlement of Schedule II opioid medications | not stated | arrested; surrendered nursing license | none documented | source |
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VA Hospital Pharmacy Employees Charged with Stealing and Selling Opioids
2017-02-08
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Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas |
VA John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital (Little Rock, AR) | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, promethazine with codeine syrup | Pharmacy tech used VA supplier web-portal access to order excess drugs, falsified invoices, redistributed to coworkers | not stated | Federal indictment unsealed Feb 8, 2017; 8 counts including conspiracy to steal and distribute | none documented | source |
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Casper physician suspended over alleged excessive painkiller prescriptions and oxycodone conspiracy
2016-12
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Wyoming Casper, WY |
Casper, WY | oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl, hydrocodone, phentermine, hydromorphone, tramadol, testosterone cypionate | The board found the physician prescribed high amounts of oxycodone, methadone, and fentanyl to one patient and may have conspired to acquire a scheduled drug by deception for use by someone other than that patient; prescribed controlled substances to a patient with whom he was in a relationship and may have obtained them by fraud; and increased and decreased oxycodone doses for another patient, which the board said could be careless disregard or conspiracy to acquire a narcotic by fraud. | not stated | Wyoming Board of Medicine summarily suspended the physician's license until a formal complaint and hearing; the physician was arrested and charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. | none documented | source |
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MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Employee Charged with Forging Oxycodone Prescriptions
2016-10-12
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District of Columbia Washington, DC |
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C. | Oxycodone | Allegedly used a nurse practitioner's blank prescription pad to forge and fill oxycodone prescriptions in eight instances, obtaining about 600 pills | not stated | Indicted on eight counts of distribution and eight counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud | none documented | source |
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Cleveland-area diet clinic pill mill indicted for trafficking phentermine and scheduled stimulants
2016-08
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Ohio Cleveland, OH |
Diet Med Clinics in Mayfield Heights, Fairview Park, and Mentor | phentermine and scheduled stimulants | indicted for running a pill mill that illegally sold more than a million doses of weight loss medication; a physician allegedly used credentials to purchase large quantities of scheduled stimulants while having little or no patient contact as hundreds of thousands of doses were dispensed directly from the clinics | not stated | charged in a 227-count indictment with Engaging in a Pattern of Corrupt Activity, Drug Trafficking, and Money Laundering; arraignment scheduled for September 1 | none documented | source |
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