A Salyersville, Kentucky, woman, Kelsie Spencer, 25, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, following her conviction for tampering with a controlled substance. According to Spencer’s plea agreement, while working as a nurse at Paul B. Hall Regional Medical Center, she removed vials of butorphanol tartrate (Stadol) from the drug supply area of the hospital, for her own personal use. Spencer then injected a saline solution back into the vials, in order to conceal her criminal activity. In her plea agreement, Spencer acknowledged that she acted with reckless disregard for the risk that another person would be placed in danger of death or bodily injury, if healthcare personnel had attempted to utilize these altered drugs on a patient that actually needed them.
