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Emergency Department Physician Pleads Guilty to 19 Counts of Illegally Prescribing Opioids and Stimulants
2026-10-21
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Florida Pensacola, Florida |
Hospital emergency departments and other medical offices in and around Escambia County, Florida; prescriptions written 2020-2025 and filled at pharmacies in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties | Over 22,000 opioid pills (primarily oxycodone and hydrocodone) and over 3,000 stimulant pills (primarily Adderall or generic equivalents), at least 25,500 controlled-substance pills in total | Wrote, signed and distributed prescriptions with no determination of a legitimate medical purpose, no physical examination, no review of prior medical and prescribing records and no record of the encounter, in whatever drug, strength and quantity the requester asked for | not stated | Pleaded guilty Oct. 21, 2026 to 19 counts of unlawfully distributing or dispensing controlled substances; sentencing set for Jan. 14, 2027, up to 20 years' imprisonment per count | none documented | source |
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Fitchburg Nursing Facility LPN Replaced Hospice Patients' Oxycodone with Lookalike Pills
2026-09-23
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Massachusetts Fitchburg, MA |
A healthcare facility in Fitchburg, MA (skilled nursing and dementia care units; Sept. 2024 – Feb. 2025) | Oxycodone (5 mg and 10 mg tablets) | Took patients' "as needed" oxycodone doses for personal use, then replaced 5 mg pills with lookalike loratadine (an allergy medication) and a memory care patient's 10 mg pills with levothyroxine (a thyroid medication) | not stated | Pleaded guilty Sept. 23, 2026, in federal court in Worcester to one count of tampering with a consumer product (up to 10 years); sentencing set for Jan. 7, 2027 | none documented | source |
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Pittsfield Pharmacist Pleads Guilty to Diverting Adderall from Pharmacy Chain
2026-09-17
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Massachusetts Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
Licensed pharmacist at a national pharmacy chain, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; charged and pleaded in federal court in Boston | Dextroamphetamine (generic Adderall) and Adderall, controlled substances that were intended for the pharmacy's customers | While working as the pharmacy's licensed pharmacist, diverted quantities of dextroamphetamine for his own use on four occasions in August, September and November 2024, and diverted Adderall on November 10, 2024 | not stated | Pleaded guilty on Sept. 17, 2026 to five counts of acquiring a controlled substance by fraud, deception and subterfuge; sentencing scheduled for Dec. 15, 2026 | none documented | source |
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Denver Hospital Case Coordinator Sentenced to 18 Months for Tampering With Patients' Oxycodone Prescriptions
2026-09-17
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Colorado Denver, Colorado |
Case management coordinator with medical-record access, hospital / in-house pharmacy (Denver, CO) | Oxycodone prescriptions belonging to ~127 patients, Dec 2023-Jul 2024 | Used patients' identifying information to pick up their prescriptions, replaced pills with ibuprofen, aspirin, acetaminophen, or loratadine | not stated | Pleaded guilty Mar 12, 2026; sentenced Sept 17, 2026 to 18 months in federal prison | none documented | source |
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Pediatric intensive care nurse sentenced after guilty plea to obtaining morphine by fraud
2026-09
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Maryland Baltimore, MD |
University of Maryland Medical Center Pediatric Intensive Care Unit | morphine | diverted morphine from a pediatric intensive care unit; documented an 8:30 a.m. intravenous morphine dose for a patient but did not document a later dose she told another nurse she had given; pleaded guilty to obtaining morphine by fraud | not stated | Sentenced to 1 year, suspending all but 30 days, with two years of supervised probation; prohibited from caring for children during probation; excluded from state and federal healthcare programs. Pleaded guilty June 20, 2026; sentenced Sept. 9, 2026 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. | none documented | 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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Celina Pharmacy Owner and Two Pharmacies Banned from Handling Controlled Substances
2026-08-10
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Tennessee Celina, Tennessee |
Dale Hollow Pharmacy + Xpress Pharmacy, Celina, TN | Oxycodone and other opioids, dispensed despite diversion red flags | Dispensed controlled substances without valid prescriptions/outside legitimate practice; falsely billed Medicare | not stated | Consent judgment $450,000 + CS ban through 2040 — entered Aug 3, 2026 (Weir separately sentenced Jun 18, 2026 to 24 months + $1.4M restitution) | $1,419,974 (restitution) | source |
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Contract Nurse Anesthetist Sentenced for Burglarizing Pain Clinic's Controlled Substances
2026-07-20
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Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky |
Contract CRNA, pain treatment center (Louisville, KY) treating intrathecal-pump patients | Controlled substances used to refill patients' implanted pain pumps | Caught by police burglarizing the clinic and removing controlled substances meant for patients' pre-filled pump syringes | not stated | Sentenced Jul 20, 2026 to 6 years 5 months + $15,000 fine + 3 years supervised release; forfeited Kentucky nursing licenses | $15,000 (criminal fine) | source |
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