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A Kansas nurse will go to federal prison for diluting morphine-based solutions at a nursing home.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 56-year-old Deborah Riggs, of Goddard, was sentenced Monday to four years.
Riggs pleaded guilty in December to one count each of consumer product tampering and adulterating a drug at the Halstead Health and Rehabilitation Center. She admitted removing from 32 to 62 percent of the contents and replacing it with an unspecified substance.
No patients received the diluted medicine.
Riggs was convicted in 1998 of possessing a controlled substance and sentenced to two years of probation and four months of home detention. State regulators suspended, and then stayed, her license in February 2000. Her license was later sanctioned for stealing narcotics while she was a nurse at a Wichita hospital.
A Kansas nurse will go to federal prison for diluting morphine-based solutions at a nursing home.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 56-year-old Deborah Riggs, of Goddard, was sentenced Monday to four years.
Riggs pleaded guilty in December to one count each of consumer product tampering and adulterating a drug at the Halstead Health and Rehabilitation Center. She admitted removing from 32 to 62 percent of the contents and replacing it with an unspecified substance.
No patients received the diluted medicine.
Riggs was convicted in 1998 of possessing a controlled substance and sentenced to two years of probation and four months of home detention. State regulators suspended, and then stayed, her license in February 2000. Her license was later sanctioned for stealing narcotics while she was a nurse at a Wichita hospital.
