Editor’s note. In his column, “that’ll be 240 ‘blue roxys’” David Stanley, RPh, tells of a close personal encounter with someone trying – unsuccessfully to fill an obviously fraudulent prescription. Mr. Stanley raises the issue of red flags, the Nation’s growing awareness of narcotics, and the pressure to fill scripts. This article is a response [...]
AN OPERATING department practitioner who stole drugs from a hospital medicine cabinet has been struck off. Kerry Garside stole co-codamol from Spire Cheshire Hospital in Stretton, where she was employed as an ODP between March 2013 and May 2015, in order to feed her addiction to pain-relieving medication. A Health and Care Professionals Council hearing [...]
16:00 The UK drug regulator has launched a ‘large-scale investigation’ into the diversion of prescription drug supplies into the criminal market, after discovering ‘significant’ amounts of benzodiazepines and similar drugs had been diverted from the regulated supply chain. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said that, uncommonly, the drugs involved were legitimate UK [...]
BEATRICE – A one-year Gage County Jail sentence has been given to a woman convicted of obtaining a prescription drug by fraud. 25-year-old Alyssa Lange was sentenced in Gage County District Court, Wednesday, by Judge Daniel Bryan Jr. Lange was convicted of obtaining the drug, Oxycodone by fraudulent means, while she was pregnant. The Gage [...]
Carla Ferrigno is charged with embezzling hundreds of vials of pain medications and sedatives from the hospital where she worked. (Photo credit: Vinelink) ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A registered nurse with Asheville's Mission Hospital is charged with embezzlement of a controlled substance. The Buncombe County Anti-Crime Task Force said 38-year-old Carla Ferrigno is charged with [...]
A Lower Saucon Township couple, on probation in a case that involved providing a teenager with intoxicants, face unrelated drug charges, Hellertown police report. An investigation into fake prescriptions for 30 mg of Adderall being passed at the CVS Pharmacy at 1332 Main St. in Hellertown led borough officers to Lindsay J. Conard, 32, and Sean Robert [...]
VonMoos(Photo: Photo courtesy Adams County Sheriff's Department) FRIENDSHIP - A 40-year-old former Adams County case manager suspected of stealing prescription drugs and money from vulnerable adults is facing felony charges. Tracy Lynn VonMoos of Friendship was charged in October with stealing $3,085.31 from a vulnerable man and early this month with stealing an unknown amount of [...]
ALBION — An Albion woman who lost her job as a nurse for forging prescriptions for painkillers in 2012 pleaded guilty in Orleans County Court to stealing prescriptions from Iroquois Job Corp. Marcie A. Conlon, 42, will face definite state prison time after she pleaded guilty to attempted forgery as a second felony offender. Conlon [...]
Alex Rodriguez, a former Lee Memorial Hospital ER nurse, faces 132 charges related to drugs, forgery and fraud after an investigation prompted by the hospital. FORT MYERS, Fla. — A former Lee Memorial Hospital nurse accused of stealing drugs for personal use pleaded guilty to six charges Tuesday, court officials said. Fort Myers resident Alex [...]
SYRAC-- USE, N.Y. -- A Manlius nurse who stole pain medication from an assisted living facility for the elderly has been fined $500 and put on probation for two years. The state Education Department took the disciplinary action against licensed practical nurse Jennifer L. Hay. While working at Samaritan Summit Village in Watertown in 2013, Hay [...]