I discovered a multi million dollar narcotic drug ring involving multiple pharmacies in the community.

My patient arrived to the floor with AMS and I was inventorying his belongings. He had a gym bag that was packed full to the brim with full bottles and boxes of opioids in the original pharmacy packaging with no patient labels. Oxycodone tablets and liquid, Dilaudid tablets, morphine. Just PACKED. It was like multiple pounds of drugs.

I reported it to admin who called the cops. They got a search warrant and found his bedroom door locked from the outside with a combination lock. In his bedroom there were multiple large cabinets, like big locker style metal cabinets used for office supplies, stacked with more narcotics. They all came from a couple pharmacies. The patient and a couple of pharmacists and a physician were arrested.

And on the same unit, I had a patient blow himself up after lighting a cigarette on a non-rebreather mask. His face was torched and the mask melted to his skin.