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Showing 9 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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DC nurse diverted fentanyl from two Washington hospitals
2022-10-27
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District of Columbia Washington, DC |
Registered nurse, Sibley Memorial Hospital and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC | Fentanyl | not stated | not stated | not stated | none documented | source |
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DC nurse and nurse practitioner licenses revoked after oxycodone distribution conviction
2022-04-08
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District of Columbia Washington, DC |
Registered nurse and nurse practitioner licensed in the District of Columbia; employer not identified in the order | Oxycodone | not stated | not stated | not stated | none documented | source |
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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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DC nurse diverted oxycodone from a rehabilitation hospital
2021-11-23
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District of Columbia Washington, DC |
Registered nurse, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC | Oxycodone IR | not stated | not stated | not stated | none documented | source |
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DC nurse license stays suspended after fentanyl and oxycodone relapse
2021-09-01
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District of Columbia Washington, DC |
Registered nurse, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC | Fentanyl and oxycodone | not stated | not stated | not stated | 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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DC hospital administrative assistant indicted over forged prescriptions for 600 oxycodone pills
2016-10
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District of Columbia | University hospital in Washington, DC | Oxycodone (about 600 pills alleged) | not stated | Administrative assistant (former hospital employee) | not stated | none documented | source |
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DC hospital medical technician sold patient data and blank prescription forms used for forged oxycodone scripts
2012-09-21
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District of Columbia | University hospital in Washington, DC | Oxycodone (obtained by a third party through forged prescriptions) | not stated | Medical technician, hospital general surgery department | not stated | none documented | source |
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DC agency nurse's Demerol pull for a patient with an expired order led to two-year suspension, upheld on appeal
1983-03-29
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District of Columbia | Capitol Hill Hospital, Washington, DC | Demerol (meperidine), 50 mg | not stated | Registered nurse (temporary staffing agency) | 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.