Prove Your Drug Diversion Prevention Program Is Worth It
A free 14-slide deck built from 931 documented cases. Every figure on every slide cites a real public case — no invented statistics, no vendor estimates.
Download the deck
14 slides you can present to a CFO, a quality committee or a board. No email required, no paywall.
Download the PDFOn a phone? Read the deck online instead. The PDF's slides are sized for a laptop or projector screen and do not fit a phone screen. Forward the PDF to a committee or download it to present. Replace the facility name and your own program cost; keep the cited cases as the downside evidence.
What is in the deck
- The value proposition
- The documented exposure: 931 cases across 52 states and territories
- What diversion costs when it is found late
- Regulatory and financial exposure
- The human cost — cases with a fatality or overdose
- Why diversion is found late
- The control set that actually catches it
- The arithmetic: program cost vs documented downside
- How to evidence your own value
- Where every number comes from
documented diversion and diversion-related compliance cases drawn from U.S. Department of Justice and DEA releases, state licensing board orders and state health department records.
states and territories with at least one documented case — this is not a regional problem.
cases where the record states a patient or clinician death, overdose or fatal outcome.
Who this deck is for
- Diversion prevention and controlled substance managers who have to justify the program's cost.
- Pharmacy and nursing leadership responding to an incident, a survey finding or a board inquiry.
- Compliance and risk officers who need the financial and regulatory exposure in one place.
- Consultants and educators teaching diversion prevention — rebrand it and present it.
Why the numbers are trustworthy
Most diversion slide decks recycle the same handful of industry estimates. This one does not use industry estimates at all. Each figure is drawn from a cited public source — a board disciplinary order, an agency press release, a court record or a news report — and the downside examples are cases you can look up.
Two rules the deck follows: a settlement is never described as a finding of liability, and separate penalties from different years are never added up to look like a single-year total.
Go deeper
- Drug diversion statistics — what the 931 documented cases actually show.
- Diversion settlements and fines — the money side, organization and individual kept separate.
- The case library — every documented case, searchable by state and era.
- Which drugs are diverted most — and in which settings.
- The diversion prevention checklist — score your own program against it.
Use it in the next 10 minutes
- Download the deck.
- Put your facility name on slide 1.
- Drop in your own program cost on the slide comparing the documented downside with the cost of preventing it.
- Present. The cited cases do the arguing.
Last reviewed: September 2026 · Content is educational, not legal advice.