City of Chicago "Loses" Drugs

Sun Times:

Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of controlled substances, vaccines and birth control pills have either expired or may have been "stolen or misplaced" because of lax security and record-keeping at a city Health Department warehouse, an internal audit disclosed today.

The Central Pharmacy warehouse, 1820 N. Besley Court, was created to save the city money through bulk purchases and time by maintaining a $3 million cache of drugs and medical supplies that could be quickly delivered to city health clinics. [snip]

"It's a high potential for abuse and theft and diverting legitimate controlled substances to the black market," said DEA spokesperson Joanna Zoltay.

"I'm not saying the city of Chicago did that. All I'm saying is they did not keep records."