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Another Health Care Worker Indicted for Stealing Opioids at Work

Several west-coast hospitals recently had the duty to inform thousands of patients that one of their former surgical technicians might have exposed those patients to Hepatitis B or C, or even HIV. The surgical technician in question, 28-year-old Rocky Allen, was allegedly seen taking a syringe full of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic, off of an operating cart at Denver's Swedish Medical Center and replacing it with a syringe full of saline solution. Allen was indicted in February on charges of tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a controlled substance by deceit. At Swedish hospital alone, nearly 3,000 patients had to be told that Allen might have been present during their procedures and they should be tested for infection, though the likelihood of any one patient being affected is low.

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