Daily Archives: April 16, 2026

EMS Drug Diversion Prevention: What Your Audit Trail Must Prove

EMS drug diversion prevention does not begin with a policy statement. It begins with whether the infrastructure can produce a record that proves what happened to every controlled substance in the agency’s possession. Most agencies have a policy. Far fewer have the infrastructure to make that policy defensible during a DEA inspection. Drug diversion in…

When a Narcotics Key Goes Missing: What DEA Compliance Requires

Controlled substance key management is rarely treated as a compliance function until a key goes missing. At that point, it becomes one immediately. The moment a narcotics key cannot be located, a gap opens in the chain of custody that no paper log can close and no locksmith can retroactively seal. Under the Controlled Substances…