They denounce four Beni pharmacies for selling a dangerous hypnotic drug without a prescription

Two pharmacies in Trinidad, one in Riberalta and another in Guayaramerin were denounced by the Departmental Health Service of Beni before the Prosecutor’s Office for Controlled Substances for selling, without a prescription, 1.3 million tablets of flunitrazepam, a powerful hypnotic drug known as the ‘date date drug’.

The director of Sedes-Beni, Luis Alberto Suárez, told the digital newspaper Erbol that the illicit was discovered with the quarterly report of the Pharmacy Department Coordinator on discharges and prescriptions from private, institutional, municipal pharmacies and short-term insurance, whose data was verified with reports and invoices sent by the distributors and branches of laboratories to know the amount of movement of sale of psychotropics and narcotics in the department.

In this way it was detected that the branch of a well-known laboratory sold “alarming quantities of controlled drugs.” According to headquarters, only the Riberalta pharmacy sold 716,040 tablets in the fourth quarter 2021-2022.

According to Erbol, Sedes-Beni asks the Prosecutor’s Office to apply the law to businesses that have committed administrative offenses and criminal offenses and explains that “owners are exposed to sanctions that can lead to the cancellation of their registration and definitive disqualification from the professional exercise, definitive closure of the establishment and imprisonment from two to five years”.

Also, it mentions that the Government of Beni awaits the opening of the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office and that those responsible do not end up dismissed or benefited from the rejection of the complaint, as in other cases.