What Happened
A Salina pharmacist who worked at CVS pleaded guilty to distributing about 21,289 hydrocodone/acetaminophen tablets outside the usual course of professional practice and received 36 months of probation including 18 months of house arrest; under her plea agreement she agreed to surrender her pharmacist license.
Reported status: Pleaded guilty; sentenced (2019) to 36 months probation.
About This Entry
This entry reports only what the linked source states. Fields the source does not state (for example the employer type, drug schedule or a sentence) are left out rather than inferred, so it is shorter than the registry's fully analysed cases.
Related Guidance
- Pharmacy Self-Assessment Checklist — Self-assessment covering the controls that detect and deter diversion.
- 15 Red Flags of Drug Diversion — Behavioral and recordkeeping indicators of diversion.
- Investigation Playbook — How to run an internal diversion investigation.
- Employee Screening & Fitness for Duty — Screening and vetting for staff with controlled substance access.