Drug diversion cases by year
931 records, 1983 to 2026. Latest complete year: 2025.
This counts the records in this registry by the year of the order, sentence, settlement or report each one describes. It is a measure of what has been collected here, not of how much diversion occurred: a year with more records is a year with more published and collected cases. 127 records carry a 2025 date, the most of any complete year; 2026 has 93 so far (newest record dated 30 October 2026).
What the recent-year dip means
Two things make the newest bars shorter than they will end up. First, 2026 is not over; its records run to 30 October 2026. Second, the sources arrive late: a press release follows a sentencing, which follows a plea, which can follow the conduct by a year or more, and a board order is published after the hearing. The registry also adds older records as they are found, so past years keep filling in. A short bar for the latest year or two is therefore registry coverage, not evidence that violations fell. For a year-on-year comparison, use complete years: 2024 has 104 records and 2025 has 127.
Records per year
“State an amount” and “state a term” count the records in that year with a dollar penalty in their structured fields or a prison or jail term stated after “sentenced”, the same rules the cost and outcomes pages use.
| Year | Records | State an amount | State a term | Most records from | Most-named class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (to date) | 93 | 12 | 8 | Michigan (8) | Opioids (58) |
| 2025 | 127 | 12 | 25 | Michigan (12) | Opioids (74) |
| 2024 | 104 | 12 | 10 | Washington (13) | Opioids (68) |
| 2023 | 95 | 11 | 24 | Louisiana (8) | Opioids (63) |
| 2022 | 78 | 21 | 13 | Montana (5) | Opioids (55) |
| 2021 | 66 | 3 | 17 | New York (5) | Opioids (46) |
| 2020 | 54 | 12 | 7 | Pennsylvania (5) | Opioids (37) |
| 2019 | 47 | 3 | 12 | Connecticut (6) | Opioids (36) |
| 2018 | 37 | 5 | 11 | Alabama (3) | Opioids (29) |
| 2017 | 34 | 0 | 2 | Illinois (3) | Opioids (22) |
| 2016 | 29 | 5 | 4 | Mississippi (5) | Opioids (18) |
| 2015 | 35 | 3 | 3 | Texas (8) | Opioids (15) |
| 2014 | 19 | 1 | 6 | Delaware (2) | Opioids (14) |
| 2013 | 19 | 5 | 5 | New Hampshire (3) | Opioids (15) |
| 2012 | 12 | 0 | 2 | Kansas (3) | Opioids (10) |
| 2011 | 19 | 1 | 1 | Maryland (4) | Opioids (9) |
| 2010 | 7 | 1 | 1 | Alaska (2) | Opioids (4) |
| 2009 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Maryland (3) | Other controlled substance (6) |
| 2008 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Vermont (1) | Other controlled substance (3) |
| 2007 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Nevada (2) | Other controlled substance (3) |
| 2006 | 7 | 0 | 0 | Maryland (4) | Other controlled substance (5) |
| 2005 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Maryland (4) | Other controlled substance (4) |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Maryland (3) | Opioids (3) |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maryland (2) | Opioids (2) |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 0 | New York (1) | Opioids (1) |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maryland (1) | Other controlled substance (1) |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Maryland (3) | Other controlled substance (4) |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maryland (1) | Other controlled substance (2) |
| Before 1997 | 13 | 1983 (1), 1984 (1), 1990 (2), 1991 (1), 1993 (1), 1994 (1), 1995 (6) | |||
| All years | 931 | 107 | 151 | ||
The eras the case library uses
The case library groups records into eras; these are the counts behind those tabs.
- Major Cases 2018-2025: 480
- Recent Cases 2025-2026: 216
- Earlier Cases 2015-2017: 98
- Earlier Cases 1995-2014: 90
- Earlier Cases pre-2010: 42
- Major Cases 2016-2025: 5
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Last reviewed: September 2026 · Content is educational, not legal advice.