Keep pushing the button, the pharmacy instructed, before swapping out the patient’s bag at least twice, according to prosecutors. Some of the patients had received what they thought were the maximum doses of pain medication but were still experiencing pain. When the pharmacist checked the morphine vials later on, he saw that many had been tampered with. ContinuumRx fired Click that month and immediately reported the tampering to the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy, according to prosecutors. and other hospice patients had received diluted morphine and hydromorphone from vials with which he had tampered,” they wrote.

Source: Washington Post October 02, 2017 07:18 UTC