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Most providers administer medications responsibly. But a growing number of providers are diverting drugs for personal use or re-sale.
It is estimated that more than 10% of all healthcare workers will steal opioids and other substances from patients and hospitals at some point in their career. It’s happening in all hospitals, in every town.
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| Summary of Diversion Incident | Address of Incident | Facility | Updated | |
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| Former V.A. Nursing Assistant Pleads Guilty in Deaths of 7 Patients | 1 Medical Center Dr, Clarksburg, WV 26301 | Louis A. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Dr. Zongli Chang, M.D., was ordered in April, 2019 to serve a sentence of 135 months for conspiring with seven other patient recruiters (co-defendants in this case) to illegally distribute prescription drugs in Lavonia, MI. | lavonia, michigan | February 11, 2021 | View full detail | |
| Retired physician to pay $70,000 to resolve controlled substances prescribing, recordkeeping violations. | 305 S, WI-27, Cadott, WI 54727 | Cadott Medical Center (CMC) | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Patrick R. McQuade, 29, of North Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of obtaining controlled substances through fraud, was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay $7,793.78 in restitution to the Rite Aid Corporation. As a condition of his probation, McQuade is prohibited from employment as a pharmacist. | North Tonawanda, NY, USA | Rite Aid | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Pharmacy technician would pretend to return stock bottles, take a bottle of Alprazolam to the consultation room, then conceal the bottle in her pants. | 29505 Mound Rd, Warren, MI 48092, USA | Meijer Pharmacy | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Thirty-Three Defendants Charged, and Multiple Defendants Plead Guilty To Racketeering Conspiracy In Nationwide Prescription Drug Diversion Case | 2980 Commers Dr Ste 200, Eagan, MN 55121 | Minnesota Independent Cooperative | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse admits to thefts, and dilution of pain meds | 85 Herrick St, Beverly, MA 01915 | Beverly Hospital | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Alabama nurse at a nursing & rehabilitation home charged with felony theft of a controlled substance after patient's oxycodone pills go missing. | 903 11th St NE, Jasper, AL 35504 | Ridgeview Nursing Home and Rehab Center | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| A drug dealer and pharmacist were sentenced to a combined over 23 years in prison for their roles in a conspiracy to use explosives to destroy another pharmacy. | 2115 14th St, Auburn, NE, USA | Hyrum’s Family Value Pharmacy | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Theft of pills by a traveling pharmacist led to murderer’s arrest 49 years later. | 51000 Romeo Plank Rd, Macomb, MI 48042 | CVS Pharmacy | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse guilty of theft after stealing drugs from nursing home | 121 Hospital Dr, Watertown, WI 53098 | Watertown Health Care Center | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Doctor sentenced to 7 years for fraudulently billing health care programs for prescribing without a medical purpose. | 11037 Farm to Market 1960 Rd W, Houston, TX 77065 | Texas Pain Solutions | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse who stole pain meds thief gets two years in prison. | 340 Union St, Kingston, ON K7L 4E6, Canada | St. Mary's Of the lake Hospital | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse Charged with Tampering with Liquid Morphine | 66 Broad St, Westfield, MA 01085 | Governor’s Center | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| A nurse admitted to stealing drugs and forging documents. | 285 MacKenzie Rd, Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0, Canada | Inuvik Regional Hospital | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse who admitted to stealing narcotics has firing overturned in arbitration case. | 43 Wellesley St E, Toronto, ON M4Y 1H1, Canada | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Police arrest seven people, including three nurses, for black marketing COVID drugs | Hyderabad, India | February 11, 2021 | View full detail | |
| Pharmacist Found Guilty of Drug Trafficking | 1905 Buffalo Rd, Buffalo, WV 25033, USA | Buffalo Drug Inc. | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Ex-Indian Health Services doctor sentenced to prison, fined for drug kickback scheme while at Blackfeet Indian Reservation | 1127 Alderson Ave, Billings, MT 59102 | Arnold S. Devous, MD | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse sentenced to federal prison for taking painkillers from hospital patients’ intravenous lines and injecting herself. | 701 10th St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403, USA | Mercy Medical Center and Hall-Perrine Cancer Center | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Olivia Daniti, a Long Island nurse, admitted to swiping fentanyl from Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx between Oct. 27 and Oct. 29, 2018. The hospital fired her three days later. | 111 E 210th St, The Bronx, NY 10467 | Montefiore Medical Center | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| An Exeter, NH man and former Stratham pharmacist pleaded guilty to charges related to diverting prescriptions for his own use. Frank E. Styles Jr., 62, pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances under false pretenses, | Stratham, NH | February 11, 2021 | View full detail | |
| South Carolina hospital pharmacist is facing two counts of theft of hydromorphone from the Department of Health and Environmental Control. | 955 Ribaut Rd, Beaufort, SC 29902 | Beaufort Memorial Hospital | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| New Jersey pharmacist David Goldfield was sentenced to 27 months in prison for his role in a long-running conspiracy to illegally distribute and dispense large quantities of oxycodone. | Medford Pharmacy, 639 Stokes Rd, Medford, NJ 08055, USA | Olde Medford Pharmacy and Medford Family Pharmacy. | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse pleads guilty to stealing drugs. | 2451 Intelliplex Dr, Shelbyville, IN 46176, USA | MHP Major Hospital | February 11, 2021 | View full detail |
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