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Showing 14 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Louisiana Pharmacy Technician Suspended for Diverting Controlled Substances
2024-11
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Louisiana Louisiana |
not stated | Controlled substances (not specified in the board record) | Diverted controlled substances from her employer pharmacy | Pharmacy technician (license PTC.032818) | Louisiana Board of Pharmacy suspended her credential indefinitely, Nov 2024 — $5,000 fine plus hearing, administrative, and investigative costs | none documented | source |
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Louisiana Pharmacy Technician Suspended in Second Diversion Case Same Term
2024-11
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Louisiana Louisiana |
not stated | Controlled substances (not specified in the board record) | Diverted controlled substances from her employer pharmacy | Pharmacy technician (license PTC.032513) | Louisiana Board of Pharmacy suspended her credential indefinitely, Nov 2024 — $1,000 fine plus hearing, administrative, and investigative costs | none documented | source |
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Louisiana registered nurse placed on stayed suspension and probation on a charge of diverting non-narcotic medication
2023-09-13
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Louisiana | not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Out-of-state compact nurse ordered to stop practicing in Louisiana on charges including diversion of a controlled substance and a drug screening violation
2023-09-13
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Louisiana | not stated | not stated | not stated | Nurse practicing in Louisiana on a multistate compact privilege | not stated | none documented | source |
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Louisiana nurse ordered probated on any reinstatement after charges of controlled-substance diversion, falsified records and a criminal conviction
2023-09-13
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Louisiana | not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Out-of-state compact nurse ordered to stop practicing in Louisiana on charges of controlled-substance diversion and failure to cooperate
2023-09-13
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Louisiana | not stated | not stated | not stated | Nurse practicing in Louisiana on a multistate compact privilege | not stated | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician's credential revoked for theft of controlled substances from employer pharmacy
2023-08
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Louisiana | employer pharmacy | controlled substances | theft of controlled substances from employer pharmacy | not stated | credential revoked; prohibited from applying or reapplying to practice or assist in the practice of pharmacy | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician's credential revoked for theft of oxycodone tablets from a patient's prescription
2023-05
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Louisiana | Pharmacy | oxycodone | theft of eight oxycodone tablets from a patient's prescription | not stated | credential revoked; prohibited from applying or reapplying to practice or assist in the practice of pharmacy | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician admitted to stealing controlled substances from employer pharmacy
2023-02
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Louisiana | an employer pharmacy | controlled substances | Admitted to the theft of controlled substances from the employer pharmacy. | not stated | Credential revoked; prohibited from applying or reapplying to practice or assist in the practice of pharmacy. | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician accused of forging controlled substance prescriptions from employer pharmacy
2023-02
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Louisiana | an employer pharmacy | controlled substances | Alleged to have forged controlled substance prescriptions from the employer pharmacy. | not stated | Credential revoked; prohibited from applying or reapplying to practice or assist in the practice of pharmacy. | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician admitted to theft of controlled substances from her employer; credential revoked
2022-11
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Louisiana | her employer | controlled substances | admitted to the theft of various controlled substances from her employer | not stated | credential revoked; prohibited from applying or reapplying to practice or assist in the practice of pharmacy | none documented | source |
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VA Urgent Care Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Hydromorphone
2020-05-28
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Louisiana Pineville, Louisiana |
VA Medical Center Urgent Care Clinic (Pineville, LA) | Hydromorphone | Logged into narcotics cabinet under patients' names without orders; refilled vials with saline | not stated | Pleaded guilty May 28, 2020 | none documented | source |
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Louisiana federal settlement with drug distributor over civil penalty claims
2019-05-24
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Louisiana | Wholesale drug distribution; matter handled by the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana and DEA | Oxycodone (release is tagged to oxycodone; excerpt gives no further drug detail) | not stated | Pharmaceutical drug distributor (company, not an individual) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Louisiana registered nurse voluntarily surrendered license on charges of controlled-substance diversion and a positive for-cause drug screen
2015-01-14
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Louisiana | not stated | not stated | 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.