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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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| Two wholesale pharmaceutical companies charged in a scheme to sell millions of dollars in diverted pharmaceuticals to unwitting pharmacies and consumers. | 1829 W Drake Dr Ste 102 Tempe, AZ, 85283-4320 | LLC Wholesale Supply, LLC | January 28, 2021 | View full detail |
| Two CEOs of Wholesale Pharmaceutical Companies Indicted in Alleged Prescription Diversion Scheme | 917 Calle Trinity Carolina, PR, 00982-3412 United States | Wholesalers Group Inc | January 28, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse license suspended after stealing pills at a nursing home and an acute care center. | 1905 W Hart Rd, Beloit, WI 53511 | Beloit Health and Rehabilitation | January 28, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse license suspended after stealing pills at a nursing home and an acute care center. | 146 Clover St, Williams Bay, WI 53191 | Atrium Health Williams Bay Health Services | January 28, 2021 | View full detail |
| California anesthesiologist had history of stealing fentanyl and other controlled substances from pharmacy dispensing machines as often as 5-8 times a day. | 200 W Arbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92103, USA | UC San Diego Medical Center | January 28, 2021 | View full detail |
| Federal Court Restrains Toledo Pharmacy and Two Pharmacists From Dispensing Opioids or Other Controlled Substances | 3900 Sunforest Ct, Toledo, OH 43623 | Shaffer Pharmacy | January 27, 2021 | View full detail |
| Federal Court Restrains Toledo Pharmacy and Two Pharmacists From Dispensing Opioids or Other Controlled Substances | 3900 Sunforest Ct, Toledo, OH 43623 | Shaffer Pharmacy | January 27, 2021 | View full detail |
| Pharmacy Technician sentenced for stealing painkillers meant for cancer and burn patients. | 1235 East Cherokee Street, Springfield, MO, USA | Mercy Hospital | January 26, 2021 | View full detail |
| Florida paramedic and captain arrested for forging vaccine screening and consent forms for missing vaccines that were supposed to be given to firefighters. | 126 Cottonwood Dr, Davenport, FL 33837, USA | Polk County Fire Rescue Station 38 | January 26, 2021 | View full detail |
| The Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing imposed a four-year probation on the RN license of Cynthia Pfeiffer of New Fairfield, who stole the painkillers Percocet and oxycodone. | 30 Park Lane East, New Milford, Connecticut 06776 | Candlewood Valley Health Care | January 22, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse serving five years in federal prison for tampering with drugs at six healthcare facilities. | 800 Essex St, Lawrence, MA 01841 | Roy Wood Mill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | January 13, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse serving five years in federal prison for tampering with drugs at six healthcare facilities. | 126 Monument St, Haverhill, MA 01832 | Hannah Duston Healthcare Center | January 13, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse serving five years in federal prison for tampering with drugs at six healthcare facilities. | 113 Low St, Newburyport, MA 01950 | Port Healthcare Center | January 13, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse serving five years in federal prison for tampering with drugs at six healthcare facilities. | 123 High St, Topsfield, MA 01983 | Masconomet Health Care Center | January 13, 2021 | View full detail |
| Nurse serving five years in federal prison for tampering with drugs at six healthcare facilities. | 6 Morrill Pl, Amesbury, MA 01913 | Maplewood Care and Rehabilitation | January 13, 2021 | View full detail |
| Former Nurse Sentenced to Federal Prison for Drug Conspiracy | 3035 DIRECTORS ROW STE 805 MEMPHIS, TN 38131-0420 USA | Dillon Russell Health Care Professionals, Inc. | December 17, 2020 | View full detail |
| Nurse serving five years in federal prison for tampering with drugs at six healthcare facilities. | 90 Lindall St, Danvers, MA 01923 | Hunt Nursing and Rehab | December 7, 2020 | View full detail |
| Connecticut pharmacist took vials of hydromorphone hydrochloride and morphine sulfate using a syringe and reinjected saline to hide the tampering. | 106 Sebethe Dr Suite C, Cromwell, CT 06416 | Option Care Health | December 7, 2020 | View full detail |
| Ex-nurse Placed on Probation, Admitting Taking Drugs from Geisinger Medical Center | 100 N Academy Ave, Danville, PA 17822 | Geisinger Medical Center | December 7, 2020 | View full detail |
| Georgia pharmacist sentenced to four years in federal prison for fraud using fake prescriptions for expensive medications later billed to insurance programs. | 34 Park Avenue Northwest Baxley, Georgia 31513 | Fulghum Discount Drugs | November 11, 2020 | View full detail |
| Georgia pharmacist admits to lying about filling prescriptions from high-volume opioid prescribers, pharmacy received more than a million doses from suppliers. | 1229 North Way Darien, GA 31305 USA | Darien Pharmacy | November 11, 2020 | View full detail |
| A Physician’s Assistant employed through AMI expeditionary healthcare, a Reston based company, is being charged for stealing medications. The PA along with more american healthcare professionals went to the island of Curacao for a COVID-19 rapid response. | J. H. J. Hamelbergweg, Willemstad, Curaçao | CMC medical center | October 21, 2020 | View full detail |
| 12,000 exposed to Hepatitis C in seven states after stealing fentanyl and refilling syringes with saline to be later injected into patients. | 5102 West Campbell Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85031 | Maryvale Hospital Medical Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A massive federal opioid investigation in 2019 led to the arrests of doctors and medical professionals across West Tennessee. | 113 Hopkins Ave, Bells, TN 38006 | Downtown Medical Clinic, PLLC | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In the Western District of Tennessee, Jeffrey Young, a nurse practitioner who called himself the Rock Doc, is accused in an indictment for trading opioids including the fentanyl patch for sex. He once piloted a reality show about his clinic, in Jackson. “Over approximately three years, (Young) allegedly prescribed approximately 500,000 hydrocodone pills, 300,000 oxycodone | 111 Stonebridge Blvd, Jackson, TN 38305 | Pain Clinic | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
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