HelioMetrics Comment: As we know, this isn't just a North American problem. Drug Diversion is a world problem. Story Below: A pharmacist at the Bimbilla government hospital is in the grips of the district police for allegedly stealing some pharmaceutical drugs. The district police crime officer, DSP Ebenezer Kosi-Peprah told Citi News that the police got [...]
A young pharmacist has been reprimanded after he stole 58 oxycodone tablets a day from his workplace to feed a drug habit. He’ll also need to get a Pharmacy Board-nominated psychiatrist to declare him fit to practice if he wants to return to work as a pharmacist. The problem began in 2012 when the Victorian [...]
A Whittier man accused of stealing a pharmacist’s identity and working as an unlicensed pharmacist in the Los Angeles area for more than a decade, for the second time, appeared in court on Thursday. Benito Plascencia, 58, faces six felony charges and one misdemeanor charge in the case, California Department of Consumer Affairs spokeswoman Joyia [...]
Dendrea Cenetha Williams was arrest Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 on drug trafficking charges in Hale County after authorities say was stealing about 2,000 hydrocodone tablets a month from her employer. (Special to AL.com) A Hale County pharmacy technician is behind bars, suspected of stealing more than 20,000 pills from her employer over the past year, [...]
An evidence technician at the Montana State Crime Lab who stole opioids that were being stored as evidence in criminal cases, forcing prosecutors to drop charges against 69 defendants across the state, was given a suspended sentence with community service for his crimes. As part of the 10-year, fully suspended sentence, Missoula District Court Judge [...]
UnityPoint flagship hospital Iowa Methodist Medical Center.(Photo: Register file photo) More than five months have passed since a former Des Moines hospital employee admitted to stealing painkillers that were be used to treat hundreds of patients, but no criminal charges have been filed. Victor Van Cleave was a pharmacy technician at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, who was [...]
A Montmartre nurse will pay $12,000 after mismanaging medication in the long-term care facility where she worked. Ashley Storrey cried during her brief address to the Saskatchewan Association of Licensed Practical Nurses (SALPN) discipline committee in Regina on Wednesday morning. “I sincerely regret the mistakes that I have made,” Storrey said, voice shaking, at the [...]
DANBURY, CT — The license of a city nurse was suspended by the state's Board of Examiners for Nursing, according to the Connecticut I-Health team. The LPN license of Jennifer Ressa was suspended after the state Department of Public Health received a report that Ressa had taken Oxycodone from her employer. The a report from [...]
More than five months have passed since a former Des Moines hospital employee admitted to stealing painkillers that were be used to treat hundreds of patients, but no criminal charges have been filed. Victor Van Cleave was a pharmacy technician at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, who was accused in 2016 of stealing liquid fentanyl and hydromorphone. Many [...]
ELDORA, Iowa — Officials with Eldora Emergency Medical Services confirmed to KCCI Tuesday that an investigation is underway after some of its pain medication was tampered with prior to being administered to patients. According to a press release from Eldora EMS, the group’s supply of Dilaudid, an opioid pain medication, may have been partially removed [...]