Police say they found 90 grams of meth, four grams of heroin, some marijuana, needles and a glass pipe during a search of the vehicle. 7, Mooresville police allegedly found Moss slumped over the steering wheel of his car at a gas station.
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The Indiana nursing board this month suspended the license of Carmel nurse Eric Moss after he was charged in Morgan County with dealing and possessing meth. She admitted to police that she was snorting heroin. The Indiana attorney general last month filed a complaint seeking disciplinary action against Union County nurse Angela Faye Davis after she had pleaded guilty in Butler County, Ohio, to possession of heroin. There are a good number who are in recovery, but there are a good number who are not." "Oftentimes, we (ISNAP) only see the nurses that get caught. "That means 13,000 nurses are probably struggling with addiction," Lindquist said. There are currently 105,669 registered nurses and 26,651 licensed practical nurses in Indiana.
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Her attorney didn't return a phone call from The Star Press, but she told the Indiana State Board of Nursing that she takes medication for her sinuses and it caused a false positive for meth.Ībout one of every 10 health professionals has or will have some form of drug or alcohol addiction/dependency at some point in their professional career,according to ISNAP. Nurses are at high risk because of their knowledge of medicine, dosage and effects, access to medicine, the stress of the job, chronic pain from back and other injuries, the tendency to self-diagnose and self-prescribe, and the constant focus on other peoples' needs instead of their own. Kimberly Vanover-Bardo, a traveling nurse from Hartford City, was placed on indefinite probation last month after it was revealed that she had failed a drug screen required by her employer in Ohio. Pain killers contain narcotic substances/compounds that are the active ingredient in heroin and opium.
I think just recently there has been an increase in the use of meth, although we've not seen as big an upsurge in that as heroin." As the addiction progresses, I think we are seeing them going to the streets and finding that heroin is probably cheaper, and maybe they're not diverting (pain killers from the work place) for risk of losing their license. "I think what happens is initially they start with (pain-relieving) opioids. While many more nurses are addicted to marijuana, alcohol and pain killers than to meth or heroin, "we have seen an upswing I think in the use of heroin," Lindquist said. Her office isn't keeping count, "but we do know this isn’t a first, unfortunately."Īctually, heroin is being abused by Hoosier nurses more than meth, says Charles Lindquist, program director at the Indiana State Nurses Assistance Program (ISNAP). "This is not the first time such cases have been filed (against nurses in Indiana)," says Molly Gillaspie, a spokesperson for the Indiana Attorney General's office.
Meanwhile, a Hartford City nurse has been placed on probation after failing a drug screen for meth. She was arrested along with three others, including another nurse, Jerri Tonya Cole, 41, who showed up at the Deye Street residence in the middle of the raid. Cole reportedly admitted that a glass smoking pipe, a pill container of meth and a butane torch that police found in a search of the residence belonged to her. MOORELAND - Henry County police claim they saw Angelia Louise Sparks, a 42-year-old nurse, drop a glass smoking pipe on the floor of a residential garage during a methamphetamine raid two months ago.
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