A hospice nurse called an Alabama pharmacy to ask why pain medication wasn't working.
Click, 30 , is accused of tampering with vials of medicine by removing morphine to feed his opioid addiction and shipping off diluted, ineffective medicine.
As the lead pharmacy technician at Birmingham-based ContinuumRx of Central Alabama, Click prepared IV fluid bags containing medications for patients, prosecutors wrote in court records. The IV bags included the opioids morphine or hydromorphone.
In September 2016, Click distracted a pharmacist who witnessed him taking morphine from a cabinet and putting it in his pocket, prosecutors said.
Click "would take the opioids, draw out the desired amount, and replace it with saline or sterile water."
When the drugs failed to relieve the patients' pain, nurses would call ContinuumRx, often seeking guidance from Click since he was the technical expert at the pharmacy.
A technician leads, prepares the Narcotic, and minimum to no monitoring by a licensed pharmacist. The Pharmacy should be fined harshly for violating the law due to lack of supervision by RPh..
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