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Showing 16 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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New Jersey psychiatrist pleaded guilty to 17 felony counts for invalid stimulant and benzodiazepine prescriptions
2026-06
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New Jersey | Cape May County psychiatric practice | Adderall, Vyvanse, Xanax | not stated | Psychiatrist | not stated | none documented | source |
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Trenton Pharmacy Owner Convicted of Diverting Millions of Oxycodone Pills
2025-01-22
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New Jersey Trenton, New Jersey |
Independent retail pharmacy, Trenton, NJ | Oxycodone (Schedule II) | Filled fraudulent prescriptions outside the usual course of practice and falsified pharmacy records to conceal the diversion of millions of pills | not stated | Convicted by federal jury Jan. 22, 2025 on conspiracy and drug-involved-premises charges; sentencing pending | none documented | source |
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New Jersey drug manufacturer settles claims it failed to account for oxycodone, hydrocodone and temazepam
2024-04-10
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New Jersey | Drug manufacturing operations | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, temazepam | not stated | Pharmaceutical manufacturer (DEA registrant) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Charges announced in alleged opioid distribution network run from a Morris County physician's office
2022-08-05
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New Jersey | Physician's office in Morris County | Prescription opioids | not stated | Medical office employees, according to the Attorney General's statement; four defendants named in the release | not stated | none documented | source |
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South Jersey hospital system settles DEA allegations after 400 oxycodone tablets reported lost or stolen
2021-12
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New Jersey | Hospital inpatient pharmacy, Voorhees | Oxycodone 30 mg (400 tablets) | not stated | Hospital system (institutional registrant) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Former pharmacist-in-charge and three others charged in Warren County oxycodone diversion scheme
2021-02-24
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New Jersey | Retail pharmacy in Allamuchy, Warren County | Oxycodone 30 mg tablets and promethazine | not stated | Former registered pharmacist-in-charge, a hospital pharmacy technician, and two others | not stated | none documented | source |
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Warren County pharmacy: former pharmacist-in-charge and hospital pharmacy technician charged in alleged oxycodone diversion scheme
2021-02
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New Jersey | Independent retail pharmacy in Allamuchy Township, Warren County; prescription blanks allegedly taken from two hospitals in Paterson and Teaneck | Oxycodone 30 mg tablets and promethazine | not stated | Former registered pharmacist-in-charge of a retail pharmacy and a hospital pharmacy technician, plus two non-licensed co-defendants | not stated | none documented | source |
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Wayne hospital pharmacy technician indicted for stealing fentanyl from operating room dispensers
2017-06
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New Jersey | Hospital operating rooms, Wayne, New Jersey | Fentanyl | not stated | Hospital pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Pharmaceutical distributor pays record $150 million penalty over unreported suspicious controlled-substance orders
2017-01-17
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New Jersey | Distribution centers serving independent and small chain pharmacies | Controlled substances (suspicious orders) | not stated | Pharmaceutical distributor (DEA registrant) | not stated | none documented | source |
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New Jersey hospital nurse reprimanded after hydromorphone ampules found tampered with
2016-10
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New Jersey | Hospital (community medical center) | Hydromorphone (Dilaudid) | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse admitted diverting controlled dangerous substances while working in an Oregon regional corrections system
2016-09
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New Jersey Wasco County, Oregon |
Northern Oregon Regional Corrections system | controlled dangerous substances | admitted diverting controlled dangerous substances while working as a nurse in the corrections system; separately convicted in Oregon of Supplying Contraband, Theft and a controlled substance offense, and voluntarily surrendered the Oregon nursing license | not stated | reprimanded for violating N.J.S.A. 45:1-21(f); petition to reactivate the New Jersey registered nurse license granted, conditioned on continued participation in and compliance with the board's Recovery and Monitoring Program | none documented | source |
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Advanced practice nurse diverted phentermine through unauthorized prescriptions at Seacrest Village
2016-05
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New Jersey Little Egg Harbor, NJ |
Seacrest Village | phentermine (Schedule IV controlled substance) | The Board found the nurse called in multiple phentermine prescriptions under a collaborating physician's name and DEA number without authorization; she admitted writing phentermine prescriptions for facility staff and herself using the physician's pre-signed prescriptions. | not stated | Registered nurse license and advanced practice nurse certificate suspended for a minimum of three years effective 30 days after filing of the Final Order of Discipline; $5000 civil penalty. | none documented | source |
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Former state developmental center employee sentenced to prison for selling oxycodone in Cumberland County
2011-10-28
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New Jersey | Street-level sales outside a convenience store in Millville; no evidence the drugs came from his workplace | Oxycodone (undercover purchases also included hydrocodone and diazepam) | not stated | Former training technician at a state developmental center, employed by the New Jersey Department of Human Services until his arrest | not stated | none documented | source |
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New Jersey physician's license revoked for prescribing Percocet without medical justification
2010-10-12
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New Jersey | Private medical office, North Wildwood | Percocet (oxycodone/acetaminophen) | not stated | Osteopathic physician (pain management) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse misappropriated controlled substances at Mountainside Hospital
1995-09
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New Jersey | Mountainside Hospital | controlled substances | misappropriated controlled substances for personal use from December 1994 through April 1995 while employed as a nurse | not stated | nursing license suspended indefinitely by consent order | none documented | source |
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Registered nurse misappropriated controlled substances at Montclair Community Hospital
1991-10
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New Jersey | Montclair Community Hospital | controlled substances | misappropriated controlled substances during February and March 1991 while employed as a nurse | not stated | nursing license suspended for two years | 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.