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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 12 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Registered nurse accused of obtaining controlled substance by fraud from resident's supply at North Hills Lifecare and Rehab
2025-07
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Arkansas Fort Smith, AR |
North Hills Lifecare and Rehab | a controlled substance | Allegedly signed out two tablets of a controlled substance from a resident's prescription supply after the resident had been discharged and transferred to another unit; documentation indicated the medication was administered, but the resident did not receive it, and the tablets were later found missing from inventory. | not stated | Arrested on one count of Obtaining Drugs by Fraud, a Class D felony. | none documented | source |
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Texarkana pharmacist pleads guilty to falsifying records to conceal theft of methadone and other narcotics
2024-06
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Arkansas | Retail pharmacy in Texarkana | Methadone, oxycodone, hydromorphone, morphine (MS Contin), alprazolam and other controlled substances | not stated | Staff pharmacist | not stated | none documented | source |
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Nurse at Texas Health Hurst-Euless-Bedford diverted fentanyl, morphine, and other controlled substances from an automated dispensing cabinet
2024-05
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Arkansas Bedford, TX |
Texas Health Hurst-Euless-Bedford | Norco (hydrocodone/acetaminophen), morphine, fentanyl, diazepam, and temazepam | Withdrew two Norco 5 mg tablets from an automated dispensing cabinet when the order was for one, documented only one, then documented administration of the second after the patient was discharged; a facility audit found 10 mg morphine, 100 mcg fentanyl, 2.5 mg diazepam, and 15 mg temazepam unaccounted for; removed morphine without an order; failed to document wastage or return of unused diazepam, temazepam, and fentanyl; documented morphine administration before removal and administered an additional morphine dose without an order. | not stated | License placed on probation for two years; $1,500 civil penalty; required remedial courses and monitoring. | none documented | source |
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Arkansas nurse self-reported diverting and consuming hydrocodone from employer
2024-04
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Arkansas Cabot, AR |
Cabot Health and Rehab | hydrocodone | self-reported diverting and consuming hydrocodone from employer | not stated | Self-reported; no disciplinary action stated | none documented | source |
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Arkansas rehabilitation facility nurse self-reported diverting hydrocodone
2024-04
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Arkansas | Health and rehabilitation facility in Cabot, Arkansas | Hydrocodone | not stated | Nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Traveling nurse fired from Little Rock hospital after positive fentanyl test; Arkansas board ordered cease and desist
2023-10
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Arkansas | Hospital in Little Rock | Fentanyl (positive drug test) | not stated | Traveling registered nurse practicing under the Nurse Licensure Compact | not stated | none documented | source |
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Arkansas nurse surrenders license after record reviews found controlled-substance diversion at two facilities
2018-09
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Arkansas | Academic medical center hospital in Little Rock and a second facility | Controlled substances (not specified) | not stated | Nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Former pharmacy-tech trainee at Little Rock VA hospital sentenced to prison for role in opioid theft and sales
2018-02
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Arkansas | Veterans Affairs hospital in Little Rock | Opioids stolen from a hospital supplier | not stated | Pharmacy-technician trainee | not stated | none documented | source |
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Perryville pharmacy owner sentenced to 10 years for selling opioids off pharmacy shelves and forging prescriptions
2017-09-27
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Arkansas | Independent pharmacy in Perryville | Oxycodone and hydrocodone (Schedule II, III and IV pills) | not stated | Managing pharmacist and co-owner | not stated | none documented | source |
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Little Rock VA hospital employee pleads guilty in conspiracy to steal and distribute opioids
2017-09
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Arkansas | Veterans Affairs hospital in Little Rock | Prescription medication including opioids | not stated | Hospital technician (one of three indicted employees) | not stated | 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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Arkansas hospital nurse's license suspended three years after narcotics cabinet tampering and Demerol concerns
1993-08-17
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Arkansas | Two hospitals, in Bentonville and Eureka Springs | Demerol (meperidine) | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | 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.