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Arkansas nurse charged with using dead patient's name in attempt to purchase hundreds of oxycodone pills
Fox News ^ | 2/03/25 | Landon Mion

Posted on 02/05/2025 2:31:21 AM PST by Libloather

A nurse in Arkansas is facing felony charges after allegedly using a dead man's name when attempting to purchase oxycodone pills at pharmacies.

Caitlin Carol Adams was charged with three counts of fraud or deceit to procure a narcotic drug-forged prescription in connection with multiple drug purchases last month, according to KAIT.

Adams is accused of using a fake prescription to purchase 120 oxycodone pills at a pharmacy in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Jan. 2, the outlet reported.

She claimed she worked at a nursing home and that the pills were for a patient.

Investigators said Adams, who is a licensed registered nurse according to the Arkansas State Board of Nursing, used a credit card with her name on it to buy the pills.

"After looking into the prescription, an employee of the pharmacy contacted the nursing home in question, and they stated that Caitlin Adams was fired on Jan. 1," investigators said in the affidavit, KAIT reported.

Adams returned to the same pharmacy on Jan. 6 with another prescription for 180 oxycodone pills, according to investigators.

The prescription was under a man's name who was later determined to have been a patient at the same nursing home where Adams previously worked, the affidavit said.

The man whose name was on the prescription had also been dead since Dec. 30.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: arkansas; crime; dead; dope; drugs; oxycodone; pills
That's one way to do it.
1 posted on 02/05/2025 2:31:21 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
The man whose name was on the prescription had also been dead since Dec. 30.

But probably still on the voters' rolls. Voting solidly Democrat!

Regards,

2 posted on 02/05/2025 3:04:46 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Libloather; Lazamataz
She seems nice. Well, except for that whole illegal drug thing.

I think the good news is, though, we may have FINALLY found a wife for Laz. Make sure to get a pre-nup, though. Drug use too? Or maybe she's just hoping to be a drug lord.


3 posted on 02/05/2025 4:37:51 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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[Adams returned to the same pharmacy on Jan. 6 with another prescription for 180 oxycodone pills, according to investigators.]

Tenacious, it seems.


4 posted on 02/05/2025 4:39:26 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: alexander_busek

But probably still on the voters’ rolls.

***********

There ought to be a requirement that the voter roles
where a person lived at should be notified upon a death
certificate issue. Not sure who all gets notification
upon death.


5 posted on 02/05/2025 4:46:08 AM PST by deport
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To: SaveFerris
Investigators said Adams, who is a licensed registered nurse

was a licensed registered nurse..

6 posted on 02/05/2025 4:57:14 AM PST by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: Ikeon

hehehe


7 posted on 02/05/2025 5:08:24 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris; Lazmataz
we may have FINALLY found a wife for Laz.

It looks like a match made in . . . well somewhere.

8 posted on 02/05/2025 5:31:59 AM PST by BipolarBob (FBI Agent "I spied, lied and stole for the Bureau but by gawd I never lost my integrity".)
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To: SaveFerris

She’s pretty. Too bad she ruined her life.


9 posted on 02/05/2025 5:38:54 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: telescope115

Yeah, she’s not horrible in appearance. Sad.


10 posted on 02/05/2025 5:50:26 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: BipolarBob

[It looks like a match made in . . . well somewhere.]

Arkansas!


11 posted on 02/05/2025 5:51:12 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris
So is she the Oxy addict or is she selling the Oxy?

There have been a lot of people who got hooked on Oxy after being prescribed it for actual injuries.
The problem is once your prescription runs out the only alternative is HEROINE. A buddy's wife was prescribed it after getting injured in a car accident. It took her YEARS to get off it. Ruined their marriage and her life. She never had an addiction problem prior to that. She was a housewife/realtor. She was not even a big drinker.

12 posted on 02/05/2025 6:40:36 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

IMHO, a lot of people do not start out intending to be drug addicts

For some (I imagine) it just gets a deep hold on them. I’m amazed, frankly, that some are able to break off from the hard stuff.

I never had any desire, thank God. Never tried it in any form.

However, I was in the hospital (unfortunately) decades and decades ago. I felt what the painkillers did to me - it was like a wild rollercoaster ride. I would have preferred the injury had not occurred obviously.


13 posted on 02/05/2025 6:43:47 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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