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Nursing home worker sentenced in medicine theft

September 18, 2008
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CONCORD, N.H.—A nursing home worker has been sentenced to 45 days in jail after pleading guilty to stealing a painkiller from an elderly patient in Manchester, N.H., and using it herself.

Thirty-two-year-old Melissa Dunham of Hooksett is a licensed nursing assistant. She pleaded guilty to patient abuse for removing a narcotic patch from an 86-year-old resident of Courville at Manchester and keeping it for her own use. The narcotic is more powerful than morphine and is used to treat severe and persistent pain.

Dunham was ordered to serve 45 days in jail with the rest of a 12-month sentence suspended.

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