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Theft of prescription drugs from nursing home residents on the rise
Posted on Jun 24, 2009
In recent months several states have seen cases where nursing home employees steal prescription drugs from the elderly residents they care for. Typically drugs with a high street value like narcotic painkillers are stolen and then sold later for cash.
The thefts often go unnoticed by elderly residents, some because they don’t have the ability to notice or communicate that their painkillers are gone and others because they were slipped a placebo.
Drugs that are popular with sticky-fingered nursing home or long term care facility employees include Lortab, Lorcet, Vicodin, Norco, Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, and OxyContin.
If residents don’t notice that their medication is missing, it can be very difficult to catch the thief. In one case in Georgia, a nursing home nurse who had been stealing hydrocodone was only caught after selling the stolen pills to an undercover police employee.
Family members concerned about their loved ones’ powerful pain medications going missing should remain vigilant and become as involved as possible in the daily care and medication routines at the nursing home. A caring, involved family is a big deterrent to neglect, abuse, and theft in a home or long term care facility.
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