Case Database
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 31 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Doctor Convicted of Distributing Over 2 Million Stimulant Pills on the Done ADHD Platform
2026-10-02
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Michigan Western District of Michigan |
Licensed prescriber on the Done ADHD telehealth platform operated by Done Global, Inc.; tried in the Western District of Michigan | Adderall and other stimulants, including methamphetamine and amphetamines (over 2 million pills) | Prescribed stimulants to paying subscribers without examining them, including a patient with an active substance use disorder and a patient he knew had a schizophrenia diagnosis, and continued after warnings; recruited other medical professionals to the scheme and earned referral bonuses | not stated | Convicted by a federal jury Oct. 2, 2026 of one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and six counts of distribution of controlled substances; maximum penalty 140 years; sentencing date not set | none documented | source |
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Metro-Detroit pharmacy technician pleads guilty to health care fraud and illegal oxycodone distribution
2026-05-01
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Michigan | Three metro-Detroit pharmacies | Oxycodone | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Metro-Detroit pharmacy technician pleaded guilty to health care fraud and illegal oxycodone distribution
2026-05
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Michigan | Three metro-Detroit retail pharmacies | Oxycodone | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Registered Nurse Summarily Suspended Over Grass Lake Drug Diversion
2026-02-27
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Michigan Grass Lake, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Pharmacist Fined and Probated Over Big Rapids Drug Diversion
2026-01-16
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Michigan Big Rapids, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Pharmacist | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Pharmacist Fined Over Utica Drug Diversion and Alcohol Conviction
2026-01-16
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Michigan Utica, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Pharmacist | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Registered Nurse Fined and Probated Over Southgate Drug Diversion
2026-01-15
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Michigan Southgate, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Social Worker Probated Over Hamtramck Drug Diversion
2026-01-14
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Michigan Hamtramck, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Licensed master's social worker | not stated | none documented | source |
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Emergency Room Nurse Sentenced for Tampering With Fentanyl Vials at Michigan Hospital
2025-11-25
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Michigan Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan |
Registered nurse, emergency room, Ascension St. John Hospital, Grosse Pointe Park/Detroit, MI | Fentanyl | Removed fentanyl from vials, substituted another liquid, and returned tampered vials to locked drug storage; also stole vials outright for personal use | not stated | Pleaded guilty to tampering with a consumer product; sentenced Nov. 25, 2025 to two years in federal prison | none documented | source |
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Michigan Pharmacist Fined Over West Bloomfield Drug Diversion
2025-11-19
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Michigan West Bloomfield, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Pharmacist | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Practical Nurse Fined and Probated Over Gladstone Drug Diversion
2025-08-20
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Michigan Gladstone, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Licensed practical nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Detroit-area emergency room nurse pleads guilty to tampering with fentanyl vials
2025-05
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Michigan | Hospital emergency room in the Detroit area | Fentanyl (Schedule II) | not stated | Registered nurse (emergency room) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Registered Nurse Summarily Suspended Over Canton Drug Diversion
2025-04-16
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Michigan Canton, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Pharmacy Technician Surrenders License Over Westland Drug Diversion
2025-04-16
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Michigan Westland, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Registered Nurse Summarily Suspended Over Chesaning Drug Diversion
2025-04-15
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Michigan Chesaning, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Nurse Practitioner Summarily Suspended Over Bay City Drug Diversion
2025-03-28
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Michigan Bay City, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse / nurse practitioner | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Pharmacist Surrenders License Over Grand Blanc Drug Diversion
2025-01-18
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Michigan Grand Blanc, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Pharmacist | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Pharmacy Technician Fined and Probated Over Taylor Drug Diversion
2025-01-18
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Michigan Taylor, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Registered Nurse Fined and Probated Over Alpena Drug Diversion
2024-12-07
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Michigan Alpena, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Registered Nurse Fined and Probated Over Allendale Drug Diversion
2024-12-07
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Michigan Allendale, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Macomb County Physician and Pharmacy Owner Pay $700,948 Over Opioid Prescribing and Filling Scheme
2024-11-04
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Michigan Clinton Township, Michigan |
Medical practice and an on-site pharmacy (Heartland Drugs) sharing an office complex in Clinton Township, Michigan | Opioid and ADHD (stimulant) medications | Physician prescribed medically unnecessary opioid and ADHD medications, which the co-located pharmacy filled without adequate scrutiny | not stated | Physician, his practice, and the pharmacy owner paid $700,948.42 to settle False Claims Act allegations, November 2024; physician surrendered his DEA registration | $700,948 (civil settlement) | source |
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Michigan Physician Suspended Over Bloomfield Township Drug Diversion and Fraud Conviction
2023-12-15
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Michigan Bloomfield Township, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Physician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Physician Surrenders License Over Big Rapids Drug Diversion and Fraud Conviction
2023-11-15
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Michigan Big Rapids, Michigan |
not stated | not stated | not stated | Physician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Michigan Pharmacist Sentenced for Selling 25,000+ Opioid Pills from His Own Pharmacy
2023-02-09
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Michigan Madison Heights, Michigan |
Retail pharmacy (Great Health Pharmacy), Madison Heights, Michigan | Oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone-acetaminophen, and promethazine with codeine | Pharmacist filled cash prescriptions for a patient recruiter, including in the names of people who never visited the pharmacy, and sold pharmacy stock bottles directly with no prescription | not stated | Sentenced February 2023, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, to 84 months in federal prison | $1,200,000 (forfeiture) | source |
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Detroit Hospital Nurse Pleads Guilty to Tampering With Critical Care Patients' Hydromorphone
2022-08-30
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Michigan Detroit, Michigan |
Hospital critical care unit (Detroit, Michigan) | Hydromorphone | Extracted the drug from vials and syringes pulled from automated dispensing machines and refilled them with saline before restocking | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentencing scheduled | none documented | source |
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Dearborn physician pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute hydrocodone without medical necessity
2022-05-02
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Michigan | Medical office in Dearborn | Hydrocodone | not stated | Physician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Ann Arbor VA Nurse Anesthetist Stole 2,000+ Vials of Opioids
2021-11-09
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Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Surgical unit, Ann Arbor VA Hospital (Ann Arbor, MI) | Fentanyl, hydromorphone, morphine, midazolam — 2,000+ vials | Used patient data and falsified records to withdraw drugs from dispensing machines | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Nov 9, 2021 to 3 years' probation | none documented | source |
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Michigan hospital network paid $7.75 million to settle allegations its pharmacies enabled opioid diversion
2021-01-20
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Michigan | Retail and subsidiary pharmacies, including a Port Huron pharmacy and a Western Michigan pharmacy | Hydrocodone, oxycodone and hydromorphone | not stated | Health care corporation operating hospital and retail pharmacies | not stated | none documented | source |
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Southwest Michigan nurse summarily suspended over alleged fentanyl-for-saline substitution
2020-10-28
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Michigan | Southwest Michigan healthcare workplace | Fentanyl (allegedly replaced with saline) | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Pain Clinic Nurse Accused of Replacing Stolen Fentanyl Vials
2019-10-31
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Michigan Greenville, MI |
Outpatient pain management clinic (Michigan Pain Consultants, Greenville, Michigan) | Fentanyl | Stole vials of liquid fentanyl after hours, refilled them with saline, and falsified administration records to conceal the loss | not stated | Michigan LARA summary suspension order, October 31, 2019, following the nurse's admission | none documented | source |
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University of Michigan Health System Pays $4.3M in Record Drug Diversion Settlement
2018-08-30
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Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan |
University of Michigan Health System, main hospital and 15 unregistered off-site clinics (Ann Arbor, MI) | Opioids including fentanyl, system-wide | Unregistered off-site narcotics distribution; recordkeeping failures; untimely theft/loss reporting to DEA | not stated | Civil settlement, $4.3 million — announced Aug 30, 2018 | $4,300,000 (civil settlement) | 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.