ARIZONA'S OPIOID CRISIS REPORT BY MARK AND CAROL FAIRALL
ARIZONA’S OPIOID CRISIS REPORT Written by: Mark and Carol Fairall The Aging of America September 30, 2017 Medication Theft in Senior Housing Apartments Opioids and painkiller medications killed over 33,000 people in the United States in 2015. With the new crusade to stop the Opioid misuse epidemic, the issue of medication theft from the elderly living in senior housing must be reported and stopped. We saw that problem at our former senior living facility, Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV), in 2009. We reported this criminal activity to the Peoria police in our 2010 SGRV elder abuse complaint #01-10-007447. SGRV's impostor nurse, Claudia Marquez, illegally stored, administered, and kept the deceased seniors' medications. Claudia Marquez had been cited by the Arizona Department of Nursing on 03/25/2005 as an impostor nurse but continued to illegally operate as a nurse at SGRV for years. The Arizona ...
