Coborn's Pharmacy will pay $225,000 in civil penalties for allegedly violating the Controlled Substance Act resulting in years of opioid theft. Coborn's Pharmacy allegedly enabled an employee "to engage in a years-long pattern of diverting opioids for personal use," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office District of Minnesota press release. Coborn's reported the misconduct to the [...]
The woman behind what is believed to be the largest theft of prescription opiates from a health care facility in Massachusetts in at least a decade admitted to a charge of obtaining drugs by fraud on Tuesday. But when Lisa Tillman learned the judge wanted to send her to jail, she changed her mind and [...]
An employee was arrested after allegedly stealing pain medicine at an assisted living facility. Wildwood police were called Sunday night to the Willows at Wildwood, located on Bellwether Lane in Oxford, after an employee looking for a cigarette lighter spotted a large number of Hydrocodone pills in the purse of a fellow employee, 29-year-old E. [...]
A Maryland man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for plotting to steal and resell millions of dollars in prescription drugs from federal military hospitals. U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm also on Thursday ordered 45-year-old Daniel Mark Wilkerson, of Fort Washington, Maryland, to pay more than $4.4 million in restitution. Wilkerson [...]
When a nurse at Porter Regional Hospital was confronted last fall about stealing vials of the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, she reached in her pocket, pulled out one of the vials and handed it to a supervisor, court records allege. But the accused, 26-year-old A. Henry, of Valparaiso, later said she had replaced the fentanyl [...]
The B.C. College of Nursing Professionals has handed a three-month suspension to a licensed practical nurse who administered unauthorized medication while working in Sooke. It’s the second time Traci Knight has gone before the college’s inquiry committee. In a previous case, Knight entered an agreement with the college that barred her from administering and handling [...]
A national survey examining drug diversion in United States hospitals has found many executives and care providers, including pharmacists, are concerned about possible drug diversion in facilities across the country, but few think that there is cause for concern at their own workplaces.1 Commissioned by medical technology company Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), the survey [...]
Jake Nichols paid a steep price for a substance abuse disorder: more than 500 felony charges, a divorce and losing a pharmacist job that he loved. "Drugs like Vicodin, Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, stimulant drugs like Ritalin and Adderall," he said. The Natick native worked as a pharmacist at Walgreens and Boston Medical Center, but eventually was forced to surrender his [...]
An employee at a fertility clinic in South Jersey is accused of stealing dozens of doses of fentanyl from the facility. Evesham police say 30-year-old A. Alexander stole 60 doses of fentanyl from a medication lock box at the South Jersey Fertility Clinic on Lippincott Drive in Marlton. Investigators say Alexander, who was a new [...]
A Muncie woman who told authorities she was the nursing director for a local assisted living facility was arrested after prescription medications for multiple people were found in her purse. M. Foster, 28, was preliminarily charged with possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of a legend drug. City police said a Ford Explorer driven [...]