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BOULDER — A former nurse accused of stealing pain medication intended for surgical patients has been tested for HIV and hepatitis after telling authorities he sometimes used dirty needles on patients.
The Daily Camera reports that the former nurse at Boulder Community Hospital — 27-year-old Ashton Paul Daigle — told police in a taped interview about using dirty needles to replace the drug fentanyl with a saline solution.
The tape was played for victims. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Denver confirmed to the newspaper that Daigle has been tested for HIV and hepatitis and that the tests came back negative.
Still, the office notified the patients thought to have been affected.
Daigle faces life in prison if convicted.
