Case Database

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.

• Pharmacy Technician Diverts Fentanyl at Iowa Methodist Medical Center
• ICU Nurse Steals Fentanyl IV Bags at Research Medical Center

Text uses stole/stealing/embezzled to describe removal of controlled substances.

• Chicago Pharmacy Technician Sentenced for Stealing 56,000 Hydrocodone Pills
• KU Hospital Pharmacy Tech Stole 483 Bags of Fentanyl

Text uses a form of "falsif-" within 60 characters of a record-type noun (chart, inventory, transaction, receipt, prescription, etc.).

• Chicago Pharmacy Technician Sentenced for Stealing 56,000 Hydrocodone Pills
• VA Nurse Diverted Narcotics from Dying Veterans at West Haven VA

Text explicitly characterizes the prescription(s) as fraudulent, forged, invalid, or issued outside legitimate medical practice (including "pill mill" language).

• Telehealth Firm Done Global Indicted in $100M Adderall Distribution Scheme
• Aspirar Pharmacy Pays $100K for Filling Invalid Opioid Prescriptions

Text names an automated dispensing cabinet/machine, or the acronym ADC, as part of the mechanism.

• KU Hospital Pharmacy Tech Stole 483 Bags of Fentanyl
• ICU Nurse Sentenced for Stealing Fentanyl at Parker Adventist Hospital

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.

• UT Southwestern Pays $4.5M Over Staff Fentanyl Diversion and Two Nurse Overdose Deaths
• VA Nurse Diverted Narcotics from Dying Veterans at West Haven VA

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.

• Roswell Park Cancer Center Nurse Tampered with Patients' Hydromorphone
• Massachusetts ER Nurse Tampered with Hydromorphone and Meperidine

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.

• University of Michigan Health System Pays $4.3M in Record Drug Diversion Settlement
• Northern Maine Medical Center Pays $125,000 to Settle Controlled Substances Act Allegations

Text describes using a fictitious patient profile, a false name/identity, stolen patient information, or impersonating a licensed prescriber to obtain the drug.

• ICU Nurse Steals Fentanyl IV Bags at Research Medical Center
• Denver Hospital Case Coordinator Pleads Guilty to Tampering With Patients' Oxycodone Prescriptions

Text states a failure to notify or report a loss, theft, or suspected diversion to a regulator.

• Prisma Health Midlands Pays $1 Million in Record South Carolina CSA Settlement
• Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Pharmacy Settles Over Missing Oxycodone