A 42-year-old Connecticut nurse has been charged with tampering with the liquid morphine that was prescribed to a patient.
Danielle Works was charged earlier this week with tampering with a consumer product.
Specifically, US Attorney Andrew Lelling says that Works tampered with the morphine that was supposed to go to a patient at The Governor’s Center in Westfield.
That’s a nursing facility.
According to the charging document, on Jan. 27, 2018, Works tampered with a bottle of morphine prescribed to a patient at Governor’s Center, a nursing facility in Westfield, by removing the morphine from the bottle and diluting the remaining morphine with another substance.
She removed morphine from the bottle and replaced it with another substance. If convicted, she faces ten years in prison and a 250 thousand dollar fine.
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