Since early 2020, the opioid epidemic has gone into overdrive. In the first six months of 2021 alone, an estimated 53,000 people died of opioid overdoses.
But not enough has been done to address the parallel rise in drug theft among clinicians in healthcare settings, also known as healthcare drug diversion. In fact, during the pandemic, many healthcare organizations have been scaling back resources that address the theft of prescription medications by their staff.