Pain Killer Addiction Gets Nurse in Hot Water
According to a story in WISN, a nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital in West Bend, Wisconsin has been fired by hospital administrators when she was found to have dipping into her patients' pain killer medication to feed her own addiction.
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The nurse has admitted to her pain killer addiction but not before being charged with six felonies regarding fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance.
According to St. Joseph Hospital administrators, the nurse was accessing morphine from a dispensing machine of behalf of her patients, then drinking some of the liquid.
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The nurse has admitted to taking some of the pain killer medication meant for the patients and replacing the portion she had ingested by injecting saline solution into the morphine bottles. Hospital officials were quick to point out that they were able to remove the bottles of pain killer from circulation before any of the medicine made it to the patients.
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