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Showing 8 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Delaware Medical Biller Indicted for Diverting Opioids Using Stolen Provider Identities
2025-12-15
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Delaware Delaware |
not stated | Thousands of opioid pills | Stole the professional licensure identities of medical providers he worked with to order and prescribe himself opioids through wholesale pharmaceutical suppliers, without their knowledge | Medical biller and credentialer who falsely represented himself as a licensed nurse | Indicted Dec 15, 2025 — 13 counts aggravated identity theft, 2 counts health care fraud, 7 counts obtaining drugs by fraud | none documented | source |
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Delaware nurse who impersonated a doctor to obtain Xanax lost bid to regain license after permanent revocation
2018-02-22
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Delaware | not stated | Xanax | Impersonated a physician to obtain a prescription medication for personal use | Licensed nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Delaware nurse who obtained Xanax by impersonating a doctor loses bid to regain license
2018-02-22
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Delaware | not stated | Xanax, obtained by posing as a physician | not stated | Licensed nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Delaware state hospital nurse charged with forging medication records to obtain oxycodone
2014-03-24
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Delaware | State hospital for the chronically ill (Smyrna, Delaware) | Oxycodone | not stated | Former nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Former nurse at Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill charged with forging controlled-substance records to divert oxycodone
2014-03
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Delaware Smyrna, DE |
Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill | Oxycodone | Allegedly forged signatures of other nurses on Controlled Substances sheets to indicate oxycodone had been given to patients, while allegedly keeping the drugs for personal use. | not stated | Arrested and charged with three felony counts of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation or fraud or forgery, seven counts of second-degree forgery, and one count of falsifying a business record. Released on $51,000 unsecured bond. | none documented | source |
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Delaware nurse suspended two years after unrecorded cabinet withdrawals and muscle-relaxant theft at a state prison
2013-11-07
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Delaware | Hospital in Lewes, then Sussex Correctional Institute in Georgetown | Vicodin (one pill) and Soma, a muscle relaxant | not stated | Registered nurse (previously licensed practical nurse) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Licensed practical nurse found to have ingested prescription medications and possessed Adavan at Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill
2013-04
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Delaware | Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill | prescription medications; Adavan | ingested several prescription medications without telling her supervisor; was found with Adavan in her pocket that should have been administered to a patient but was claimed missing; Hearing Officer found a pattern of theft and consumption of controlled substances | not stated | Board suspended the license for five years, required monthly random drug screens, and required 12 CEs (6 in ethics, 6 in substance abuse) | none documented | source |
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Delaware nurse used a physician's DEA number to obtain Xanax for herself; licenses later permanently revoked
2009-02-12
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Delaware | Outside any facility: prescriptions ordered in her own name using a physician's DEA registration | Xanax | not stated | Licensed nurse holding Delaware nursing licenses | 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.