RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – We call them nurses, medics, and caretakers. And sometimes it’s easy to forget they are just like anyone else. “I don’t like the term ‘diverting’ drugs. That’s a nice word that people use to dress up what we do. What I like to say is the truth. I stole drugs,” a [...]
(Photo: FabioBalbi) CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The American Nurses Association says one in 10 nurses is addicted to drugs and may be high when treating your loved ones. It is a story that will shock you, and the nurse telling it knows that-- that’s why she’s asked us to hide her identity. She wants her story [...]
NORTH BEND, Ore – A Coos Bay man was arrested following a theft investigation at two Coos County schools. On October 25, North Bend Police officials say they were contacted by the North Bend School District to report thefts of medication from Hillcrest Elementary School and North Bend High School. Officials say School Resource Officer [...]
Action News found 3 out of 4 nurses disciplined in Pennsylvania are done so for drugs or alcohol. And over the past 12 months, the number has exploded."All narcotics are accessible to you, like easily accessible. So if there's an inkling of addiction, it's there. It's easy," said Gerry Dolan, former addict. Gerry Dolan knows [...]
An ex-Lee Memorial Hospital nurse arrested for allegedly stealing medication from the hospital has had his license restricted. Alex Rodriguez, 28, was arrested in September after an investigation revealed he had stolen painkillers Dilaudid, oxycodone and morphine from a locked medication container. Rodriguez, of Fort Myers, stole medicine about 15 times each month from April [...]
GREENWOOD, Ind. - Greenwood police arrested a pharmacy worker this week for stealing more than a thousand pills from her employer over the course of several months. It happened at the CVS pharmacy on State Road 135. Police said Samantha Beaver confessed to skimming 1,281 pills from customers; 256 of those pills were Hydrocodone. Police [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Four Northeast Ohio nurses are accused of stealing prescription drugs from three Cleveland hospitals. The nurses falsified hospital paperwork in order to make it seem they were giving the drugs to patients, court records say. Each is charged with felony theft, deception to obtain prescription medication and drug possession. They were charged Wednesday following investigations by the [...]
ELLSWORTH — An employee at Seaport Village Healthcare was charged last week with stealing drugs from the facility. Joleen Beninati, 39, of Ellsworth was summoned on a charge of theft of drugs (Class C). Police said the stolen drugs included hydrocodone and oxycodone and hydromorphone. All three drugs are opioid painkillers. Police received a couple [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa — A pharmacy tech claims he watered down the opioid prescriptions of hospital patients and stole the powerful painkillers. The incident happened at Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Over the course of six weeks, 731 people may have been given the watered-down drugs. Instead of patients receiving a prescribed painkiller called [...]
A Lake Havasu City drug store employee was arrested Oct. 19 after stealing nearly $2,000 worth of prescription medication. Shantel A. L. MacDonald, 26, faces felony charges for theft and possession of narcotic drugs after police were tipped off by a loss prevention officer that MacDonald was swiping pills while working in the pharmacy. When [...]