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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
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
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
In the Western District of Tennessee, Michelle Bonifield was a pharmacy technician at Mehr Drug Store in Bells, operated by codefendant Glenn Bonfield Jr., the pharmacist. An indictment accuses the Bonifields of conspiring with others to distribute hydrocodone, oxycodone and pharmaceutical amphetiamines outside the course of professional practice. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155181/download	81 Main St, Bells, TN 38034	Mehr Drug Store	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Western District of Tennessee, Michelle Bonifield was a pharmacy technician at Mehr Drug Store in Bells, operated by codefendant Glenn Bonfield Jr., the pharmacist. An indictment accuses the Bonifields of conspiring with others to distribute hydrocodone, oxycodone and pharmaceutical amphetiamines outside the course of professional practice. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155181/download	81 Main St Bells, TN 38034	Mehr Drug Store	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Western District of Tennessee, James Litton, a Hernando, Mississippi-based nurse practitioner licensed in Tennessee, is accused in an indictment of issuing prescriptions for drugs including oxycodone, hydrocodone and benzodiazepines, which are dangerous when taken with pain pills. The indictment says he did so at Consolidated Health Services of Memphis, with no legitimate medical	3315 Hacks Cross Rd #109 Memphis, TN 38119	Consolidated Health Services of Memphis, PLLC	November 19, 2019	View full detail
A year-long investigation by federal drug agents has resulted in criminal charges against several physicians and other healthcare providers — including a Del Mar woman — accused of writing bogus prescriptions or selling painkillers and other drugs on the black market. Dubbed Operation Hypocritical Oath — a play on the Hippocratic oath taken by doctors	Beverly Hills, CA		November 19, 2019	View full detail
Registered Nurse's license restricted after Jacksonville hospital found diverted intravenous painkillers and hypodermic needles stuffed in a toilet.	3625 University Blvd S Jacksonville, FL 32216	Memorial Hospital	November 19, 2019	View full detail
A former Marysville pharmacist was formally charged with defrauding a hospital to illegally obtain more than 200,000 doses of prescription pills, mostly opioids. Kyle Wilhelm, 40, was arraigned in U.S. District Court and charged with fraudulently obtaining controlled substances, which is punishable by up to eight years in prison and a fine up to $250,000,	7470 S Brockway Rd, Yale, MI 48097	McLaren Port Huron Yale Community Health Center	November 19, 2019	View full detail
McLaren agrees to pay record $7.75M settlement over drug diversion allegations at several retail pharmacies.	1221 Pine Grove Ave, Port Huron, MI 48060	McLaren Pharmacy at McLaren Port Huron	November 19, 2019	View full detail
Dignity and Woodland Memorial were the focus of federal Drug Enforcement Agency and state Board of Pharmacy investigations after Dignity officials in April 2014 reported some 20,000 pills went missing from its outpatient pharmacy. Months later, in November 2014	1325 Cottonwood St, Woodland, CA 95695	Woodland Memorial Hospital	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Eastern District of Kentucky, a solo practitioner who operates a five-clinic family practice focusing on pain management allegedly billed Medicare for urine testing that was not done and for urine testing that was not medically necessary. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155056/download	515 N Bypass Rd, Pikeville, KY 41501	Interventional Pain Consultants, PLLC	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Eastern District of Kentucky, a dentist was charged for alleged conduct that included writing prescriptions for opioids that had no legitimate medical purpose and that were outside the usual course of professional practice, removing teeth unnecessarily, scheduling unnecessary follow-up appointments, and billing inappropriately for services. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155051/download	9759 KY-122, McDowell, KY 41647	Tackett Family Dentistry	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Eastern District of Kentucky, a doctor was charged for allegedly prescribing opioids to Facebook friends who would come to his home to pick up prescriptions, and for signing prescriptions for other persons based on messenger requests to his office manager, who then allegedly delivered the signed prescriptions in exchange for cash. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1154891/download	5425 N Mayo Trail, Pikeville, KY 41501		November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Bowdoin G. Smith, who was a doctor of osteopathic medicine licensed by the State of Tennessee Department of Health, Board of Osteopathic Examination in August 1987, consented in October 2012 to prescribing pain medication when it wasn’t medically necessary. His license was placed on probation for three years.	9 Maggart Cir, Carthage, TN 37030	Dr. Bowdoin G. Smith	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Brian Richey, Daniel Seeley and Jonathan White, nurse practitioners, were employed at pain clinics. They are accused of scheming to illegally gain money by making false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, which provides health benefits for Defense Department employees and their families. The grand jury indictment claims they	725 Cool Springs Blvd, Franklin, TN 37067	Pain MD	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Brian Richey, Daniel Seeley and Jonathan White, nurse practitioners, were employed at pain clinics. They are accused of scheming to illegally gain money by making false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, which provides health benefits for Defense Department employees and their families. The grand jury indictment claims they	725 Cool Springs Blvd, Franklin, TN 37067	Pain MD	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Brian Richey, Daniel Seeley and Jonathan White, nurse practitioners, were employed at pain clinics. They are accused of scheming to illegally gain money by making false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, which provides health benefits for Defense Department employees and their families. The grand jury indictment claims they	725 Cool Springs Blvd, Franklin, TN 37067	Pain MD	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Darrel R. Rinehart, an internist, is accused of routinely prescribing “highly addictive opioids” including morphine sulfate, hydrocodone, oxycodone and extroamphetamine for patients without a legitimate medical purpose. The state medical board suspended him in November 2018 through May 2019, when his license would expire. A grand jury investigation	1114 W 7th St, Columbia, TN 38401	Core Physicians	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Middle District of Tennessee, John Polston, a pharmacist licensed by the state of Tennessee’s Board of Pharmacy, was in charge of the Oakley Pharmacy Inc., doing business as Dale Hollow Pharmacy in Clay County. He is accused of knowingly and without authority dispensing and distributing pain medications and benzodiazepines, drugs which are dangerous	102 Old Jefferson St, Celina, TN 38551	Oakley Pharmacy Inc., DBA Dale Hollow Pharmacy	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Lawrence Valdez, an emergency specialist licensed with the Tennessee health department’s Board of Examiners, is accused in an indictment of prescribing oxycodone and oxymorphone, among other medications, for his patients outside the usual course of professional practice 12 times between June 2016 and March 2017. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155091/download	1411 W Baddour Pkwy Lebanon, TN 37087	Dr. Lawrence Valdez	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Timothy Abbott, a licensed podiatrist with the Tennessee Department of Health, Board of Examiners, was accused of prescribing opioids including hydrocodone for no legitimate medical reason between January 2015 and October 19, 2018. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155096/download	411 High St, Nashville, TN 37211	Timothy C. Abbott, DPM	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Western District of Tennessee, Dr. Thomas Ballard III, is accused of issuing prescriptions for opioids including oxycodone, morphine and hydrocodone along with benzodiazepines, which are dangerous to take at the same time as opioids, at Ballard Clinic-Family Practice in Jackson outside the usual scope of professional practice and with no legitimate reason. He’s	418 E Baltimore St, Jackson, TN 38301	Ballard Clinic-Family Practice	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Western District of Tennessee, Britney Petway, a nurse practitioner, and Dr. Charles Alston, are accused together in an indictment. It claims that Petway issued prescriptions for oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs at Superior Health and Wellness Clinic LLC, in Jackson, without a medical need and that Alston was the supervising doctor there while	1463 S Highland Ave, Jackson, TN 38301	Superior Health and Wellness Clinic LLC	November 19, 2019	View full detail
In the Western District of Tennessee, Britney Petway, a nurse practitioner, and Dr. Charles Alston, are accused together in an indictment. It claims that Petway issued prescriptions for oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs at Superior Health and Wellness Clinic LLC, in Jackson, without a medical need and that Alston was the supervising doctor there while	1463 S Highland Ave, Jackson, TN 38301	Superior Health and Wellness Clinic LLC	November 19, 2019	View full detail
Moorehead, while employed at Franklin General as a registered nurse in 2016 and 2017, admitted he used patient identities to obtain controlled substances, specifically pills containing hydrocodone, by diverting their prescribed medication to himself and giving the patients over the counter pain pills. His scheme was concealed by falsifying medical records when he switched out	1720 Central Ave E a, Hampton, IA 50441	Franklin General Hospital	November 19, 2019	View full detail

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