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Donna Monticone

Yale Medicine Settles With DEA After Ex-Nurse Replaced Fentanyl With Salt Water: Feds Yale Medicine Settles With DEA After Ex-Nurse Replaced Fentanyl With Salt Water: Feds
Yale Medicine Settles With DEA After Ex-Nurse Replaced Fentanyl With Salt Water: Feds Yale University agreed to pay more than $300,000 for violating the Controlled Substances Act after a nurse at a former fertility clinic there admitted to tampering with vials of fentanyl meant for patients, federal authorities said.  Police arrested Donna Monticone, 49, in November 2020 after investigators discovered she had removed the high-powered synthetic opioid from glass vials meant for surgery patients at Yale Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, the DEA said.  She injected herself with the drug and replaced what she used with saline so the vials would appear fu…