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SACRAMENTO — An audit of fire department procedures on controlling inventories of narcotics has also recommended that firefighters undergo random drug testing. The audit was in part instigated by a whistle-blower complaint on how morphine and other addictive drugs are handled by paramedics and EMT’s in the fire department.
City auditor Jorge Oseguera found irregularities in record keeping including improperly logging in drugs when they were received and keeping track of drugs that were used or thrown out when the expiration date was reached. In one instance records made it appear that 100 vials of morphine were missing.
“We able to find some deficiencies in those controls that needed to be addressed right away,” said Oseguera. His audit made numerous recommendations including one which asked the department to consider randomly drug testing firefighters as some large departments around the state currently do.
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