Monday, April 18, 2016

Healthcare workers routinely stealing prescription drugs

The epidemic of prescription drug addiction has gotten so worse that healthcare employees are routinely stealing pills from pharmacies and healthcare services. An investigation by the Columbus Dispatch found that nearly 217 healthcare employees in Ohio were implicated in the theft of prescription drugs in the year 2014. And the issue may be far worse, since It is likely that internal theft gets underreported.



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