By HOPE YEN / Associated Press WASHINGTON — Doctors, nurses or pharmacy staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospitals were fired or reprimanded in only a small fraction of thousands of reported cases of opioid theft and missing prescriptions since 2010, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. About 372 VA employees [...]
ALLEGAN, Mich. (WOOD) — Prosecutors are waiting for police reports before deciding on possible charges against a former nurse in the death of a 4-year-old boy. Autopsy reports show a caregiver is under investigation for siphoning off medicine that was meant to keep Ryley Maue alive, and replacing what she took with water or another [...]
Reports show the VA hospital in Charleston is doing a better job than others around the country keeping a close eye on prescription drug thefts. Numbers provided by the local hospital indicate, in the past three years, there were 10 reports of missing prescription drugs and two incidents of employee "pilferage." One of the employees [...]
Bags of heroin, laced with fentanyl. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Two Alabama doctors face up to 20 years in prison for running an opioid "pill mill" out of their two mobile clinics. On Thursday Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch were found guilty of over-prescribing addictive and sometimes deadly pain killers to their patients, receiving illegal kickbacks [...]
A U.S. Postal Service worker admitted taking pain medications from mail parcels. This is a file photo.MLive File Photo GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A former U.S. Postal Service worker was placed on probation for stealing pain medication from packages intended for U.S. Veterans Affairs, court documents show. Sabrina Smith said she took the medication after [...]
HelioMetrics Comment: One of the things that I find interesting about this article is that it appears that part of the reason they were found guilty is they said they were doing things "for a legitimate medical purpose and within the bounds of accepted medical practice", yet as the bolded area below states, they had [...]
Sydney pharmacist Shelley Ross has received a six-month suspension from duty effective March 1 after she admitted prescribing apo-sulfatrim to a phoney patient in 2015. In doing so she breached a previous remedial agreement dating from September 2015, that barred her from ordering, receiving or signing for narcotic medication including benzodiazepines. In addition to this [...]
WSYR-TV - As the opioid epidemic continues to grow, users are now finding another way to get a fix— by stealing prescriptions from animals. A district attorney in Massachusetts issued a warning after a woman noticed her pet wasn't getting better with medicine. She suspects a relative was taking the drugs. Even veterinarians in Central [...]
A Northeast Philadelphia doctor has admitted to stealing patients' identities as part of a scheme to sell weight-loss pills out of a clinic in his home. Arnold Berkowitz, 62, of the 600 block of Parlin Street, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Bucks County Court to felony drug and conspiracy counts, as well as misdemeanor charges of [...]
SAITAMA — Police in Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 36-year-old male anesthesiologist on suspicion of stealing drugs from a hospital. According to police, the incident came to light on Feb 3 when the suspect, Hajime Narahama, allegedly stole fentanyl, a potent synthetic opiate, during a patient’s operation. Fuji TV reported that Narahama hid the [...]