In mid-December, a nurse practitioner from the Convenient Care Clinic in Dyersburg, TN was arrested for illegally distributing opioids. She was fraudulently billing insurance companies for visits that never took place and leaving pre-signed prescriptions for her employees to distribute. She was also giving opioids to sexual partners and bringing her personal sex toys to work. Additionally, it’s reported that she was impaired while on the job often, causing her to punch walls until her hands bled and rip doors off the hinges. She is currently facing 20 years for drug charges and 10 years for health care fraud. Tennessee is #2 in the nation for opioid use, so it’s no surprise that this happened. In 2018, Tennessee providers gave 81.8 opiod prescriptions for every 100 peolpe, the third highest opiod prescribing rate in the nation. In the same year, 1,307 people in Tennessee died from opiod overdose. The epidemic is on the decline, but overprescibing is still a huge problem in the state for law enforcement and health care workers.