It was an auditorium full of medical professionals and business representatives, all on the same mission.

"See something, say something, and that goes a long way."

One of those people is Matt Wise, director of Client Success at Scripps Safe. Wise says that 15 percent of people who work in the healthcare field are diverting drugs, a topic of discussion on day one of the second annual Drug Diversion in Healthcare Conference at Pitt-Titusville.

The event was in collaboration with the Brockway Center for Arts and Technology and the Pa. Office of the Attorney General.

"The pain points that are in the healthcare industry, we all want to come around and solve [them]," Wise said.

Wise presented his solution with a safe, requiring individual keycodes, hoping to limit temptation for those who may fall victim to it.

"Temptation with security and barriers put around it really does drive down divergence," Wise said.

In her decades of nursing and mental health experience, Dr. Susan Maloney, an associate professor at PennWest Edinboro, shared her thoughts with attendees, emphasizing that substance use disorders are some of the main reasons for drug diversion.

"Substance use disorder can encompass alcohol misuse, prescribed opioid misuse, methamphetamine, coke, crack cocaine, any illicit drug," Maloney said.

Both Wise and Maloney expressed a key way of solving the issue: a journey to recovery, led with empathy.

"We don't want to see them get fired," Wise said. "We don't want to see them go quietly somewhere else and keep that diverging problem going."

"Every single person has a story and they have a story that will bring you to your knees if you're willing to hear it," Maloney said. "We really have to meet people with empathy and compassion."