The purpose of this study is to understand the perceptions of future healthcare workers and perceptions of the general public on nurses who become addicted to opioids while working. Participants in the study read one of two vignettes that tell the same story but have different main characters (one male nurse and one female nurse) who become addicted to opioids while at work. The perceptions of the reader were then measured to determine the level of stigma regarding addiction, perception of addiction, and perception of the addicted nurse. A sample size of 32 future healthcare workers participated in Part A and 93 individuals from the general community completed Part B. A series of independent sample t-tests were run to analyze differences between groups based upon their responses to the survey questions. The results of Part A of the study revealed that there were significant differences between conditions on the Stigma Scale and Factor 4 of The Perceptions of Nursing Impairment Inventory (PNII) among future nurses. Part B of the study revealed that there were no significant differences observed between conditions when testing the general population. These findings suggest that among nursing students the gender of the nurse that engaged in opioid diversion influenced the level of stigma and awareness of peers who engage in opioid diversion that participants felt towards the nurse in the vignette.