More than 100,000 doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers are abusing drugs—mostly, narcotics. The healthcare industry is aware of the serious implications of widespread “drug diversion.” (“Drug diversion” is a nice way to say “stealing medication from sick people”.) Any facility that handles drugs will have diversion going on… But the industry is focused on the assumption that this prescription abuse mostly occurs in overworked hospitals and by doctors and medical staff at these hospitals. The odds of medication theft in a nursing home So if tens of thousands of hospital workers have both the will and opportunity to steal patient medication, how many nursing home workers are doing committing this act? Consider these facts: The most widely abused prescription drugs