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Filter every documented case by date, drug, state, setting, role, prosecution status, and penalty. Search accepts brand or generic drug names, facility names, and cities.
Showing 10 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Anchorage Nurse Practitioner Sentenced for Prescribing Opioids Without Medical Purpose
2025-11-14
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Alaska Anchorage, Alaska |
not stated | Fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and diazepam | Prescribed the controlled substances to six patients between June 2016 and November 2018 without any legitimate medical purpose | Advanced Nurse Practitioner licensed to prescribe in Alaska | Convicted May 2025 — 10 felony second-degree and 2 felony third-degree counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance; sentenced Nov 14, 2025 to 3 years to serve plus 4 years probation | none documented | source |
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Alaska registered nurse surrendered license over diversion and substance-abuse allegations
2022-11-01
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Alaska | not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Pain clinic nurse practitioner convicted of diverting opioids to a family member using other patients' names
2022-10
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Alaska Eagle River, AK |
a pain management clinic (Eagle River Pain and Wellness) | opioids | wrote opioid prescriptions in the names of other individuals in order to divert nearly 5,000 pills to a live-in, opioid-addicted partner, and created false appointment records for those individuals to conceal the diversion; also pre-signed and pre-dated prescriptions for non-medical staff to distribute to patients for cash when out of the office | not stated | convicted by a federal jury on 10 felony counts, including distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death, distribution/dispensing of a controlled substance, and maintaining a drug-involved premises | 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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Alaska registered nurse reprimanded for diverting narcotics from employer for personal use
2017-05
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Alaska | her employer | various narcotics | intentionally misappropriated various narcotics from her employer for personal use | not stated | public reprimand; consent agreement | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse reprimanded for misappropriating narcotics from employer for personal use
2017-05
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Alaska | employer | various narcotics | intentional misappropriation of various narcotics from employer for personal use | not stated | Consent Agreement; public reprimand | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse signed out extra OxyContin, Percocet, and oxycodone not given to residents and forged a narcotic sheet
2011-01
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Alaska | Long-term care facility for residents (not named in the Alaska board summary) | OxyContin, Percocet, oxycodone | signed out extra doses not given to residents and forged another registered nurse's initials on a narcotic sheet | not stated | consent agreement with five years probation, chemical dependency treatment, random drug screening, and employment restrictions | none documented | source |
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Nurse practitioner self-administered controlled substances taken from office stock
2010-01
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Alaska | Practice | controlled substances | took controlled substances from her office stock without a prescription and self-administered them | not stated | consent agreement with five years probation, drug rehabilitation counseling, psychiatric/psychological therapy, random testing, and restrictions on controlled-substance access and practice | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse had Schedule II drugs removed from an automated dispensing cabinet and unaccounted for
2010-01
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Alaska | Practice | Schedule II drugs | removed Schedule II drugs from an automated dispensing cabinet; 184 incidents were unaccounted for | not stated | consent agreement with three years probation, public reprimand, chemical/alcohol assessment, counseling, supervision, and limits on controlled-drug access | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse diverted a Schedule II controlled substance from the workplace
2007-06
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Alaska | Workplace | Schedule II controlled substance | diverted a Schedule II controlled substance from the workplace | not stated | amended memorandum of agreement; relocated to Nebraska | none documented | source |
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What each column does and doesn't cover
Every case states When (date) and Where (state) — 730 of 730. Beyond that, a blank cell means the source record does not state that fact, not that it did not happen:
- Setting: stated in 649 of 730 cases (89%)
- Drug: stated in 657 of 730 cases (90%)
- Method: stated in 474 of 730 cases (65%)
- Prosecution status: stated in 474 of 730 cases (65%); a documented penalty (fine, settlement, or restitution) exists for 77 of 730 cases (11%)
- Role: stated in only 255 of 730 cases (35%) — filtering or sorting by role silently hides the rest of the registry, which may still describe the same role in prose without a structured field
Why: documented failure modes
A separate text analysis of the 723 case summaries found 371 cases (51.3%) matching at least one named failure-mode pattern below. 352 cases (48.7% of 723) matched none of these categories - most of these are short board-order summaries ("licensee diverted controlled substances from their employer") that state an outcome without describing a mechanism, not cases where no failure occurred. A case can match zero, one, or several categories — these are corpus-level counts, not a per-case tag, and are not used as a row filter above: reproducing the exact category membership per case from the stored patterns did not exactly match this file's hand-curated counts on independent re-check, so no individual case here is labeled with a "why" that this code cannot verify.
Text names an act of replacing/refilling the drug with a named substitute (saline, water, an OTC pill, a cleaning product, etc.), OR uses swap/dilute/tamper to describe the same act, so the altered container went back into use looking unchanged.
Text uses stole/stealing/embezzled to describe removal of controlled substances.
Text uses a form of "falsif-" within 60 characters of a record-type noun (chart, inventory, transaction, receipt, prescription, etc.).
Text explicitly characterizes the prescription(s) as fraudulent, forged, invalid, or issued outside legitimate medical practice (including "pill mill" language).
Text names an automated dispensing cabinet/machine, or the acronym ADC, as part of the mechanism.
Text describes recording or claiming drug as "waste" (when it was not), pulling drug from a waste stream, or wastage that was not independently witnessed.
Text describes cancelling, voiding, or falsely entering a system transaction (an order, a return-to-stock entry, a cancel entry) specifically to conceal a removal.
Text states the FACILITY (not an individual concealing personal use) failed to maintain required inventory/records, or names a recordkeeping violation/negligent recordkeeping as the basis for the government action.
Text describes using a fictitious patient profile, a false name/identity, stolen patient information, or impersonating a licensed prescriber to obtain the drug.
Text states a failure to notify or report a loss, theft, or suspected diversion to a regulator.
Disclaimer
Case summaries are based on public records (DOJ press releases, court documents, news reports). Charges are allegations unless a conviction is noted. Analysis is educational, not legal advice.
Last reviewed: September 2026 · Content is educational, not legal advice.