Plainfield nurse charged with using patients’ pain medicine
Saturday, October 21st, 2006.
Barre, VT - A Plainfield nurse with a history of drug abuse could spend five years in prison for allegedly ingesting narcotic pain medications intended for nursing home patients under her care.
Margie Yoder, 56, admitted to investigators in August that she had illegally tampered with fentanyl patches affixed to elderly patients at Berlin Health and Rehabilitation Center, according to officials from the Attorney General’s Office. She was charged Thursday with two felonies – obtaining a regulated drug by deceit and making false statements – as well as a misdemeanor charge of abuse of a vulnerable adult.
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