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Nurse Aaron Bradley Hudson pleaded guilty early this year to fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance. He died by suicide in June at age 39.

In January 2016, co-workers suspected a nurse was stealing drugs, according to records from the UT Southwestern police department.

Nurse Aaron Bradley Hudson pleaded guilty early this year to fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance. He died by suicide in June at age 39. The nurse worked in a unit that treated patients recovering from surgery. Staff members aren’t supposed to remove drugs from a locked cabinet until the patient arrives from the operating room. But Aaron Bradley Hudson, a nurse who worked for a temp agency, would sign out drugs and take them into a bathroom before his patients arrived, according to the police report. Co-workers spotted empty syringes in nearby staff bathrooms.

That January, the same month that Hudson stole the drugs, UT Southwestern created a committee to address diversion of controlled substances “as part of ongoing commitments and efforts to continually improve patient and caregiver safety.”

Hudson lost his Texas nursing license in 2017 and pleaded guilty early this year to fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance. He died by suicide in June at age 39.