A nurse practitioner with Stoneridge Clinic in Dublin, OH, faced accusations of stealing patients’ identities to unlawfully take possession of their pain medicine. Claims report that the nurse practitioner stole information from up to 20 clients.
Pharmacy employees discovered the nurse practitioner’s deception when she placed an order on behalf of a client for a large amount of Vicodin. Staff members then reported seeing the nurse practitioner pretending to be one of her patients in the pharmacy, where she attempted to pick up her order.
Staff members allowed the nurse practitioner to leave with placebo pills before calling local law enforcement. Arresting officers report that the nurse practitioner had her child in the backseat at the time of her arrest.
Brad Koffel took on this challenging case and declared that it reflected the debilitating impact addiction can have on a person’s life. In his defense, Koffel claimed that addiction drove the nurse practitioner to violate her professional standards for the sake of pain relief.
The nurse practitioner voluntarily deactivated her nursing license and pursued rehabilitation treatments while represented by Koffel.
