by jordan | Apr 26, 2018 | drug diversion, medication disposal, opioid addiction, opioid epidemic, Uncategorized
Medications and Your Drinking Water For many years, people have felt that disposing of medications was easy: you either throw them right into the garbage or dispose of them via the toilet. Although this seems like it wouldn’t propose any dangers that might come back...
by jordan | Apr 26, 2018 | In the News
Nurse’s Drug Diversion Causes Infection Outbreak at Wisconsin Hospital by Paige Minemyer | Jul 7, 2017 11:53am Opioid diversion led to an outbreak of Serratia marcescens at a Wisconsin hospital, researchers have found. Five patients admitted to five different wards...
by jordan | Apr 24, 2018 | In the News
Hospital Fined $510,000 After Pharmacist’s Illicit Prescription Drug Diversion A Pennsylvania hospital has agreed to pay $510,000 in fines after an inpatient pharmacist stole controlled substances. The pharmacist, Renata Dul, was found to have stolen more than 35,000...
by jordan | Apr 19, 2018 | In the News
Opioids Spare Children from Severe Pain, but Leftovers May Fuel the Opioid Epidemic Large amounts of leftover opioids remain in communities nationwide from prescriptions for children alone By Constance L. Monitto, M.D., Contributor |April 19, 2018, at 6:00 a.m. Only...
by jordan | Apr 19, 2018 | In the News
House Subcommittee Hears Personal Stories of the Opioid Epidemic Opioid Prescriptions Are at a 25-Year Low, But Opioids Still Leading Cause of Drug Deaths By Shelby Fleig 4-19-2018 Witnesses who lost children to opiod addicition or are former addicts speak to the...
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