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Showing 25 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Houston Cash-Only Pharmacy Owner and Three Pharmacists Sentenced for Pill Mill Scheme
2025-09-25
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Texas Houston, Texas |
Cash-only retail pharmacy, Houston, TX | Hydrocodone and oxycodone (Schedule II/III) | Dispensed controlled substances against fraudulent prescriptions, issued in stolen physicians' names, to individuals posing as patients for drug traffickers | not stated | Owner and three pharmacists sentenced Sept. 25, 2025 to 20 months-12 years in prison plus forfeiture orders | $2,600,000 (forfeiture) | source |
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Pharmacy technician diverted controlled substance from pharmacy (agreed board order)
2025-02
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Texas | pharmacy | controlled substance | diversion | not stated | Voluntary revocation | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician diverted controlled substance from pharmacy (default board order)
2025-02
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Texas | pharmacy | controlled substance | diversion | not stated | Revocation | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician took controlled substances from pharmacy (default board order)
2025-02
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Texas | pharmacy | controlled substances | took | not stated | Revocation | none documented | source |
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Physician diverted Demerol from patients for personal use
2024-12
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Texas Dallas, TX |
Dallas, TX | Demerol | diverted Demerol from patients for himself; tested positive for Demerol | not stated | voluntary surrender of Texas medical license in lieu of further disciplinary proceedings | none documented | source |
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Pharmacist admitted to taking controlled substances without authorization from the pharmacy for personal use
2024-11
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Texas | Pharmacy | controlled substances | Admitted to taking controlled substances without authorization from the pharmacy for personal use (2 counts); felony theft of a controlled substance (deferred). | not stated | 120 day suspension + 5 year rehabilitation probation | none documented | source |
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Hospice Nurse Stole Morphine from Dying Patient, Replaced with Cranberry Juice
2024-01
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Texas Clifton, Texas |
RN, Clifton Lutheran Sunset Ministries hospice (Clifton, TX) | Morphine | Stole morphine from a hospice patient, refilled the container with cranberry juice to conceal the theft | not stated | Convicted of injury to the elderly + diversion of a controlled substance; sentenced to 4 years prison + 2 yrs probation | none documented | source |
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Default order for diversion of controlled substance from pharmacy
2024-01
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Texas | Pharmacy | controlled substance | Diversion of controlled substance from pharmacy | not stated | Revocation | none documented | source |
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Admission of taking controlled substances from a pharmacy for personal use
2023-09
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Texas | Pharmacy | controlled substances | Admitted to taking drugs without authorization from the pharmacy for personal use (2 counts) | not stated | 90 days suspension + 5 year probation | none documented | source |
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Registrant's registration revoked for diversion of controlled substance from pharmacy
2023-02
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Texas | pharmacy | controlled substance | diversion of a controlled substance from a pharmacy | not stated | Revocation | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician took controlled substance from pharmacy for personal use
2022-10
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Texas | a pharmacy | controlled substance | Took controlled substance from the pharmacy for personal use | not stated | Suspended until cleared by a mental health professional plus 5 years rehabilitation probation | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician reinstated after taking a controlled substance from a pharmacy for personal use
2022-05
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Texas | a pharmacy | controlled substance | Took a controlled substance from the pharmacy for personal use (dated 06/06/2019), cited in connection with a prior board order | not stated | Granted reinstatement with 3 years probation | none documented | source |
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Pharmacy technician took controlled substances from a pharmacy
2021-11
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Texas | a pharmacy | controlled substances | Took controlled substances from the pharmacy. | not stated | Revocation | none documented | source |
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Registered pharmacy technician took controlled substances from a pharmacy for purposes of sale
2021-08
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Texas | a pharmacy | controlled substances | took controlled substances from the pharmacy for purposes of sale | not stated | 30-day suspension and 5 years probation | none documented | source |
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Registered pharmacy technician took controlled substances from a pharmacy for use by a family member
2021-08
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Texas | a pharmacy | controlled substances | took controlled substances from the pharmacy for use by a family member | not stated | revocation | none documented | source |
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UT Southwestern Pays $4.5M Over Staff Fentanyl Diversion and Two Nurse Overdose Deaths
2018-04
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Texas Dallas, Texas |
Clements University Hospital, UT Southwestern (Dallas, TX) | Fentanyl and other controlled substances | Staff diversion went undetected amid CSA recordkeeping failures — late theft/loss reporting, dispensing/wasting documentation errors | not stated | Civil settlement, $4.5 million — Nov 30, 2021 | $4,500,000 (civil settlement) | source |
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Dallas pharmacy dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescriptions; agreed order
2015-08
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Texas Dallas, TX |
a Dallas pharmacy | controlled substances | dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescription orders | not stated | Agreed Board Order accepted and entered; license placed on 2-year probation with conditions and fined $2500 | none documented | source |
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Pharmacist-in-charge at a Dallas pharmacy dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescriptions; agreed order
2015-08
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Texas Dallas, TX |
a Dallas pharmacy | controlled substances | as pharmacist-in-charge dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescription orders | not stated | Agreed Board Order accepted and entered; license placed on 2-year probation with conditions and fined $2500 | none documented | source |
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Houston pharmacy dispensed controlled substances and dangerous drugs pursuant to invalid prescriptions; agreed order
2015-08
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Texas Houston, TX |
a Houston pharmacy | controlled substances and dangerous drugs | dispensed controlled substances and dangerous drugs pursuant to invalid prescription orders | not stated | Agreed Board Order accepted and entered; license placed on 2-year probation with conditions, fined $5000, and must develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure therapeutic dispensing of prescription drugs | none documented | source |
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Pharmacist-in-charge and corporate president at a Cleveland pharmacy dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescriptions; agreed order
2015-08
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Texas Cleveland, TX |
Tristar-Cleveland | controlled substances | as pharmacist-in-charge and corporate president dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescription orders | not stated | Agreed Board Order accepted and entered; license placed on 3-year probation with conditions, fined $7500, and must pass pharmacy law exam | none documented | source |
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Cleveland pharmacy dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescriptions; agreed order
2015-08
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Texas Cleveland, TX |
Tristar-Cleveland | controlled substances | dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescription orders | not stated | Agreed Board Order accepted and entered; license placed on 3-year probation with conditions and fined $7500 | none documented | source |
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Houston pharmacy pharmacist-in-charge dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescriptions; temporary suspension
2015-07
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Texas Houston, TX |
Rx Max Pharmacy | controlled substances | dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescription orders | not stated | Temporary Suspension Order entered; license suspended until further Order of the Board | none documented | source |
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Pharmacist-in-charge at a Houston pharmacy dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescriptions; temporary suspension
2015-07
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Texas Houston, TX |
Supreme Rx Pharmacy | controlled substances | as pharmacist-in-charge dispensed controlled substances pursuant to invalid prescription orders | not stated | Temporary Suspension Order entered; license suspended until further Order of the Board | none documented | source |
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Applicant for reinstatement granted probation after prior controlled substance diversion from pharmacy
2015-05
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Texas | pharmacy | controlled substance | diversion of a controlled substance from a pharmacy | not stated | Reinstatement granted with 3 years probation | none documented | source |
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Physician pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining diazepam
1997-05
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Texas Brownsville, TX |
Brownsville, TX | diazepam | Pleaded guilty to possession of the controlled dangerous substance diazepam obtained by fraud. | not stated | License revocation, statutorily required following the guilty plea | 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.