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It started with a few sips of Demerol left over in ampules after a case. When she got away with recording the leftovers she drank as "waste," recovery room nurse Drea Lynn Gibson, RN, started stealing whole ampules of Demerol for her use from the Plastic Surgery Center in Bellevue, Wash., documenting the medication as being administered to patients. As her addiction worsened and she ramped up her intake to 2 to 3 ampules a day, Ms. Gibson got careless and then she got caught. She broke open the ampules, consumed their contents and super-glued them back together, replacing the painkiller with saline solution to cover her tracks.
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