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Showing 14 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Massachusetts Pharmacist Pleads Guilty to Diverting Controlled Substances from New Hampshire Pharmacy
2026-08-17
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New Hampshire Lancaster, New Hampshire |
Per-diem pharmacist, pharmacy in northern New Hampshire (Lancaster, NH) | Capsuled controlled-substance medication powder and prescription pills | Removed medication meant for patients and kept it, ingesting some while on duty | not stated | Pleaded guilty Aug 17, 2026; sentencing scheduled Nov 23, 2026 | none documented | source |
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New Hampshire emergency department nurse pleaded guilty after keeping partial opioid doses
2025-12
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New Hampshire | Regional medical center in Keene, New Hampshire | Fentanyl, morphine and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) | not stated | Emergency department nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Concord Hospital Nurse Diverted Fentanyl from ICU Patient's IV Line
2024-10-07
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New Hampshire Concord, New Hampshire |
Concord Hospital intensive care unit, Concord, New Hampshire | Fentanyl | Removed fentanyl from an IV bag of a patient not assigned to her care and replaced it with saline | not stated | Pleaded guilty Oct. 7, 2024, to tampering with consumer products; sentencing set for January 2025 | none documented | source |
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Manchester hospital agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve controlled-substance recordkeeping allegations after fentanyl diversion
2024-07-08
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New Hampshire | Catholic Medical Center, Manchester | Fentanyl and six other controlled substances with inventory discrepancies | not stated | Hospital (registrant responsible for controlled-substance records) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Catholic Medical Center Pays $300,000 Over CRNA's Fentanyl Diversion
2024-07-03
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New Hampshire Manchester, New Hampshire |
Catholic Medical Center operating rooms, Manchester, New Hampshire | Fentanyl | CRNA removed fentanyl from patient syringes, replaced it with saline and hydromorphone, and falsified wasting records; hospital's inventory audits failed to catch the shortfall | not stated | Hospital paid $300,000 CSA civil settlement July 2024; nurse pleaded guilty June 12, 2024, to tampering with consumer products | $300,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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New Hampshire hospital nurse anesthetist pleaded guilty after substituting saline for operating-room fentanyl
2024-06
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New Hampshire | Hospital operating room, Catholic Medical Center, Manchester | Liquid fentanyl left over from medical procedures | not stated | Nurse anesthetist | not stated | none documented | source |
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Cheshire Medical Center Pays $2 Million After Nurse Stole Fentanyl IV Bags
2023-06-22
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New Hampshire Keene, New Hampshire |
Cheshire Medical Center (Keene, NH) | Fentanyl IV bags + other controlled substances | Theft from dispensing machine; hospital-wide recordkeeping failures | not stated | Civil settlement, $2 million — Jun 22, 2023 | $2,000,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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New Hampshire hospital paid $2 million to settle DEA record-keeping allegations after fentanyl diversion
2023-06-22
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New Hampshire | Regional medical center in Keene, New Hampshire | Fentanyl bags; 283 diverted and 163 more unaccounted for | not stated | Hospital registrant (employed nurse diverted fentanyl) | not stated | none documented | source |
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New Hampshire hospital agreed to pay $2 million to settle allegations that poor drug records allowed theft
2023-06-21
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New Hampshire | Cheshire Medical Center, including its intensive care unit | not stated | not stated | Hospital (controlled-substance recordkeeping) | not stated | none documented | source |
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New Hampshire practical nurse's license suspended on emergency basis after nursing home diversion allegations
2015-03-24
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New Hampshire | County nursing homes in Westmoreland and Sullivan County, New Hampshire | not stated | not stated | Licensed practical nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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New Hampshire Practical Nurse Given Emergency Suspension Over Nursing Home Drug Diversion Allegations
2015-03-20
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New Hampshire Westmoreland, New Hampshire |
Cheshire County Nursing Home, Westmoreland, NH (prior employer: Sullivan County Nursing Home) | Not specified in the order; described as drug diversion activity | Complaint from the facility's Director of Nursing plus information from a prior employer raised allegations of drug diversion activity | not stated | Board issued an Order of Emergency License Suspension and Notice of Hearing on March 20, 2015 | none documented | source |
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Traveling Radiologic Technologist Sentenced for Fentanyl Diversion and Multistate Hepatitis C Outbreak — New Hampshire, 2013
2013-12-02
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New Hampshire Exeter, New Hampshire |
Exeter Hospital, NH, and hospitals in at least seven other states (traveling technologist) | Fentanyl | Stole fentanyl syringes, self-injected, replaced with saline-filled used syringes | not stated | Pleaded guilty to 8 counts; sentenced to 39 years in federal prison | none documented | source |
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New Hampshire pharmacy technician's registration suspended after admitted hydrocodone theft and resale
2013-06
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New Hampshire | Retail pharmacy in Londonderry, New Hampshire | Hydrocodone; 100 to 150 tablets on about 10 occasions | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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New Hampshire pharmacy technician surrendered registration after alleged theft of oxycodone tablets
2013-01
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New Hampshire | Retail chain pharmacy in Exeter, New Hampshire | Percocet (oxycodone); at least 300 tablets alleged over June to December 2012 | not stated | Pharmacy technician | 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.