The most common violations are issues regarding controlled substance record keeping. Common record’s violations are failure to conduct annual inventories correctly, failure to maintain and document purchasing and receipt records and failing to correctly document dispensing logs. Having a registration terminate for failing to notify the bureau of an address change is common.

Other types of violations regarding security and safety of the public are violations such as failing to provide adequate security for controlled substances, stealing drugs, self-administering, impairment, falsifying records and issuing prescriptions in bad faith.