Melanie Morrison, 25, formerly a nurse at the Holiday Resort Nursing Facility in Salina, is charged with one count of tampering with consumer products and one count of adulterating a prescription drug. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in February 2010 in Saline County, Kan.

The indictment alleges that while she worked at Holiday Resort Nursing Facility, Morrison took syringes from the medical room, removed morphine from vials and replaced the morphine with sodium chloride. Morrison, who was addicted to pain medications, took the syringes home and injected the morphine.

The indictment states in May 2009 Morrison lost her job at Wesley Medical Center for removing Percocet from the hospital’s drug supply without a physician’s order.

If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on the charge of tampering with a consumer product, and a maximum penalty of three years and a fine up to $10,000 on the charge of adulterating a prescription drug. The Food and Drug Administration investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya Treadway is prosecuting.