Medical professionals and pharmacy employees continue to be prosecuted for diversion of opioids, with several recently sentenced or facing sentencing in Georgia, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

In Bryant County, Georgia, two health care workers are among three individuals admitting to stealing opioids or opioid prescriptions. Pharmacy technician Lisa Marie Douthit, who worked for Walgreen’s, was sentenced to three months in prison for stealing the opioid pills, oxycodone and hydrocodone, from her employer. Jamie Mays, a medical assistant at a pain clinic, awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to stealing prescriptions for oxycodone and Percocet.

A pharmacist in Waynesboro also faces sentencing after pleading guilty to illegally obtaining opioids for his own use. Wilton Clinton Meeks, III, allegedly acquired oxycodone from his pharmacy, Liberty Square Pharmacy, that was not prescribed to him. He did so for more than a year, DEA said.

“An inherent tragedy of opioid addiction is that it often transitions from legitimate need to desperate compulsion,” said Bobby L. Christine, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, in the written news release. “But that isn’t an excuse for medical professionals to break the law in pursuit of their own gratification.”