Rx Drug Diversion – Drug Theft
State licensing officials have sanctioned pharmacies in nine of Iowa’s Walgreens stores for a variety of alleged violations, including missing narcotics, a lack of qualified personnel and issues that caused some Iowans to lose access to their medications.
Seven of the stores that the Iowa Board of Pharmacy imposed sanctions against at its August meeting mostly faced an identical set of charges and $10,000 of penalties. Among those is the Walgreens at 111 W. Ridgeway Ave. in Waterloo along with others in Clive, Ankeny and Des Moines.
The Waterloo Walgreens store and five of the others were each charged with failing to maintain accountability of controlled substances and records, and with failing to create and maintain complete and accurate records of all controlled substances on hand.
