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Showing 15 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Pennsylvania Psychiatrist's DEA Registration Revoked After Falsified Records and Prescriptions to an Undercover Patient
2026-10-19
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Pennsylvania Easton, Pennsylvania |
Psychiatrist's office in Easton, Pennsylvania; three prescriptions issued May 17, June 11 and Aug. 9, 2021 | Dextroamphetamine-amphetamine, a Schedule II stimulant (5 mg, then 10 mg, then 15 mg, two times daily) | Prescribed without diagnosing the patient or re-evaluating her on two renewals, then falsified the medical record with a copied signature, fabricated intake forms, and documented examinations, tests and visits that never occurred | not stated | DEA registration revoked by final Decision and Order published Oct. 19, 2026 (signed Oct. 5, 2026; effective Nov. 18, 2026); pending renewal and additional registrations denied | none documented | source |
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Pottstown Physician Pays $100,000 to Settle Controlled Substances Act Violations
2026-07-02
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Pennsylvania Pottstown, Pennsylvania |
Physician practice, Pottstown, PA | Controlled substances prescribed "for stock" and moved outside the registered address | Incomplete/inaccurate controlled-substance recordkeeping; stock prescriptions not tied to identified patients; improper relocation of controlled substances | not stated | Civil settlement: $100,000 + 3-year DEA Memorandum of Agreement, announced Jul 2, 2026 | $100,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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Pennsylvania mail-order pharmacy technician accused of diverting wakefulness-drug tablets
2026-04-29
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Pennsylvania | Health system mail-order pharmacy, Elysburg | Solriamfetol tablets, sold under the brand Sunosi; 300 tablets unaccounted for | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Eastern Pennsylvania hospital network pays $2.75 million to resolve controlled substances allegations
2025-07-02
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Pennsylvania | Multi-hospital health network, Lehigh Valley region | not stated | not stated | Hospital network as a registrant; conduct tied to pharmacy technician misconduct | not stated | none documented | source |
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Pennsylvania health system pays $2.75M to resolve DOJ claims over pharmacy technician diversion
2025-07-02
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Pennsylvania | Hospital pharmacy within a Pennsylvania health system | Controlled substances (specific drugs not identified) | not stated | Pharmacy technician (unnamed) | not stated | none documented | source |
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Central Pennsylvania hospital nurse charged with diverting morphine from an emergency department
2022-12-13
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Pennsylvania | Emergency department, Mount Nittany Medical Center, State College | Morphine sulfate | not stated | Registered nurse, since separated from the hospital | not stated | none documented | source |
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York, Pennsylvania Personal Care Home Nurse Sentenced for Stealing a Hospice Patient's Oxycodone
2022-05-23
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Pennsylvania York, Pennsylvania |
Personal care home for senior citizens (York, Pennsylvania) | Oxycodone | Diverted a hospice patient's prescribed pills and falsified records to conceal the theft | not stated | Sentenced to 1 year probation and a $525 fine; surrendered nursing license | $525 (criminal fine) | source |
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Western Pennsylvania pharmacy owner sentenced in prescription drug fraud scheme
2022-05-05
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Pennsylvania | Four retail pharmacies in the Pittsburgh region | not stated | not stated | Pharmacist who owned and operated four pharmacies | not stated | none documented | source |
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VA Medical Center Pharmacy Chief Diverted Painkillers from Veterans' Prescriptions
2021-11-12
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Pennsylvania Erie, Pennsylvania |
VA Medical Center pharmacy, Erie, Pennsylvania | Hydrocodone and oxycodone | As Pharmacy Chief, removed dosage units from patient pill bottles awaiting delivery to VA patients | not stated | Pleaded guilty to a federal drug-law violation; sentencing pending | none documented | source |
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Rural Pennsylvania hospital pharmacy technician charged after 2,100 oxycodone tablets went missing
2021-01
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Pennsylvania | Hospital pharmacy, Penn Highlands DuBois | Oxycodone; a total of 2,100 tablets reported missing | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Savage Family Pharmacy Pays $180,480 to Settle Controlled Substances Act Recordkeeping Violations
2020-06-08
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Pennsylvania Waynesboro, Pennsylvania |
Retail pharmacy — Savage Family Pharmacy (Waynesboro, PA) | Oxycodone and hydrocodone — tens of thousands of unaccounted doses | Failed to reconcile inventories against the perpetual log and allowed altered counts and removed log pages, enabling undetected employee diversion over several years | not stated | Agreed June 2020 to pay $180,480 in civil penalties to resolve CSA recordkeeping violations | $180,480 (civil penalty) | source |
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Bucks County Dentist Pays $150,000 for Opioid Diversion and Recordkeeping Violations
2019-12-31
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Pennsylvania Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
Private dental practice | Schedule II controlled substances (opioids) | Dentist diverted a package of controlled substances for personal use and failed to maintain required inventory and transfer records | not stated | Civil settlement - $150,000 penalty and 4-year prescribing ban | $150,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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Dentist had patients and staff fill painkiller prescriptions for his own use
2013
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Pennsylvania | dental practice | painkillers | Had patients and staff fill prescriptions for painkillers intended for his own use to feed a drug addiction | not stated | Pled guilty to 86 counts; Pennsylvania's dental board suspended his license for 10 years | none documented | source |
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Pennsylvania practical nurse's license revoked for misappropriating drugs
2007-05-10
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Pennsylvania | Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; practice site not identified in the notice | not stated | not stated | Licensed practical nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Pennsylvania nurse disciplined for misappropriation and non-medical use of a controlled substance
2007-05-08
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Pennsylvania | Bucks County, Pennsylvania; practice site not identified in the notice | not stated | not stated | Nurse holding both practical and professional 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.