'Drug diversion' a growing problem in Canada's health-care system

On June 8, 2016, Kitchener nurse Leigh Wardlaw was assigned a homecare shift: Her job was to care for a 13-year-old boy dying of brain cancer and to administer him morphine every two hours.
Seven hours into the shift, the boy’s parents became concerned about the state of the nurse: Wardlaw was falling asleep and unsteady on her feet.
They asked the homecare agency to check on her and, when a supervisor arrived, she found Wardlaw in the boy’s room “swaying back and forth with he