A man injects the painkiller hydromorphone at the Providence Health Care Crosstown Clinic in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver on Wednesday April 6, 2016.Photo by DARRYL DYCK A Vancouver nurse caught grossly mishandling a powerful painkiller may never practise again. The College of Registered Nurses of B.C. posted a notice this week explaining that Leila [...]
NASHVILLE, TN (WJHL) – Sen. Rusty Crowe (R-District 3) continues to push for improvements in the Tennessee Board of Nursing’s disciplinary process following our investigation that uncovered delays, which allowed some nurses to find new jobs while under investigation for drug diversion. The Senate Health and Welfare Committee chairman held a second meeting on the [...]
HelioMetrics Comment: I found the part that we bolded very interesting and very true. It is shocking and sad the number of hospitals and care facilities that simply fire the caregiver for some other reason, like failing to to their job properly, so that they don't have to report drug diversion to authorities. Once a [...]
HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) The State Attorney General's office has filed charges against Chambre J. Frazier, 27, of Nanticoke. Attorney General Bruce R. Beemer said the charges filed Frazier, are the result of a joint investigation by the Attorney General's Insurance Fraud Section and Bureau of Narcotics Investigation. Investigators with the Attorney General's office have [...]
Dr. Joel Sabean, a South Portland dermatologist convicted last month on charges including tax evasion and writing unlawful prescriptions, has been put on probation by the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine. The board said that the probation is only to allow Sabean time to close his practice and transfer his patients to other doctors. [...]
REEDSBURG, Wis. (WMTV) --- Reedsburg police were alerted by one of the local pharmacists that she had received a suspicious call. So, when 32-year-old Xavier Coleman showed up to get his prescription, so did the police. When police showed up at the pharmacy, Coleman fled from police. Coleman is being held in Sauk County Jail [...]
A local pharmacist who has lost his licence in the past for stealing drugs from his workplace has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking. Russell Foster, 74, of Lakeshore was arrested Saturday on Talbot Street East in Leamington. OPP say he was arrested along with a 48-year-old Leamington man. The OPP has not released [...]
UK regulators and police are carrying out a large-scale investigation into the diversion of prescription-only drugs into the criminal market following the arrest of two pharmacists based in Yorkshire. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) received a tip-off from enforcement authorities in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland, which led to two pharmacists [...]
An Oshawa pharmacy employee is facing multiple charges after she allegedly stole $40,000 worth of prescription drugs, which had a street value of over $1 million. Officers from the Durham Regional Police’s drug enforcement unit arrested Adriana Digiorgio, 35, last Friday. The arrest came after the pharmacy noticed that $40,000 worth of prescription drugs had [...]
A pharmacy employee in Oshawa has been charged after $40,000 worth of prescription drugs, said to be worth far more on the street, went missing over a five-month period. The 35-year-old woman was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of theft over $5,000 and ten counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking. Durham Regional [...]