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B.C. nurse disciplined for narcotics theft

B.C.’s College of Nurses and Midwives has disciplined a nurse for diversion of narcotics from their employer for their own use. On May 19, a college inquiry committee panel approved an agreement between the college and a nurse to address January 2021 to June 2022 issues related to narcotic diversion for on-duty, personal use. The nurse was diagnosed with [...]

2023-06-20T15:59:29-05:00May 24th, 2023|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

NC nurse who stole surgical patients’ opioid painkillers is going to prison

A former Fuquay-Varina nurse was sentenced Monday to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for tampering with opioid painkillers intended for surgery patients. Melissa Elizabeth Chacona pleaded guilty to the charges in March last year, the federal court of Eastern District of North Carolina announced. Federal indictment documents reviewed by The [...]

2023-06-20T16:11:29-05:00May 22nd, 2023|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

UPMC employee charged with stealing patient’s oxycodone

A UPMC employee has been charged after an investigation found him allegedly stealing pills, mainly oxycodone, from patients. Officials with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General Bureau of Narcotics Drug Control began investigating a possible “drug diversion” involving former UPMC Williamsport employee, Peter Tubbs, 29, of Williamsport. Police say Tubbs was suspected of diverting [...]

2023-06-20T16:23:10-05:00May 17th, 2023|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

Butler Memorial Hospital Nurse Accused Of Stealing Pills

A nurse at Butler Memorial Hospital is accused of taking pain medication that was intended for her patients. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office filed charges earlier this week against D. Shook. She allegedly stole the prescription opioid Dilaudid, which is also known as hydromorphone. The charges come following an internal investigation that started last August [...]

2023-06-20T16:26:41-05:00May 12th, 2023|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

Ex-Nurse Avoids Jailtime For Stealing Boston Patients’ Opioids

Lisa Tarr, 33, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was sentenced to five years of probation, with the first year being spent in home detention, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. Tarr pleaded guilty last year to four counts of unlawfully obtaining controlled substances by fraud, deception, and subterfuge. Tarr was a student nurse at a Boston-area hospital [...]

2023-06-20T16:39:02-05:00May 9th, 2023|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

Detroit nurse sentenced to prison for stealing painkillers, replacing it with saline

A Detroit nurse received a four-year prison sentence this week after she was caught stealing painkillers at a hospital where she worked. Mary Cheatham, 42, of Ypsilanti, was caught tampering with vials and syringes containing the painkiller hydromorphone at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital in 2020. Authorities say she would steal the painkillers for herself and then [...]

2023-06-21T13:42:38-05:00May 3rd, 2023|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

North Iowa nurse sentenced for stealing patients’ painkillers

A Clear Lake nurse is going to federal prison for stealing fentanyl from elderly patients. Ryan William Thornton has been ordered to spend nine months behind bars and then serve one year of supervised release.  Thornton pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa to acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, [...]

2023-06-21T15:41:29-05:00April 27th, 2023|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

Ex Hospital Respiratory Therapist Jennifer Hall Pleads Guilty in Deaths of 2 Patients

While Jennifer Hall was employed at Hedrick Medical Center, the rate of cardiac collapses rose from one per year to 18 in 18 months. A former respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe, Missouri, has pleaded guilty to first-degree involuntary manslaughter and second-degree assault of two patients. Although Jennifer Hall, 42, pleaded guilty in [...]

2023-06-21T15:42:52-05:00April 27th, 2023|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

Iowa nurse, cited three times for stealing patients’ painkillers, surrenders license

An Iowa nurse accused of stealing patient painkillers on three separate occasions has agreed to surrender her license. Last October, police and paramedics were called to the Coon Rapids home of R. Landon, an Iowa-licensed nurse, in response to a call about a suspected drug overdose. According to state records, they found Landon at the [...]

2023-06-21T15:53:15-05:00April 21st, 2023|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|
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