Suburban Chicago nurse pleads guilty to stealing morphine from patients

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A suburban Chicago nurse has pleaded guilty to tampering with medications intended for patients under her care.

, appeared in federal court Tuesday where she entered a guilty plea on one count of tampering with a consumer product, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois.

Between July and August 2021, prosecutors said Diamond removed morphine from bottles prescribed to patients and replaced it with another liquid, knowing the diluted substance would be given to the patents.In one instance, Diamond diluted a bottle of morphine so that it only contained about 26% of the drug's declared amount. In a second incident, prosecutors said she diluted a bottle of the drug so that it only contained about 53% of the declared amount.

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