Alex Trelinski
THREE doctors working for the Andalucian Health Service are being probed for prescribing over 20,000 pychotropic tablets in nine months to the same patient.
The man, from Villanueva de la Concepcion, is a drug addict and is under treatment with methadone, and has numerous police records.
The Guardia Civil launched an inquiry after the Malaga College of Pharmacists found that large quantities of drugs were being prescribed to one person at well above the legal limit.
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The College brought the matter to the attention of the Health Service inspectorate which transferred the complaint to the Guardia to investigate the case.
Officers verified that the patient repeatedly went to the Villanueva de la Concepcion health centre to request the prescription of psychotropic medications, specifically Alprazolam and Clonazepam.
The man was observed on frequent visits to the centre to request new prescriptions claiming that he had lost his medication.
According to the Guardia, in a single month, he was prescribed 66 boxes of the drug.
Between January and October 2023, he was prescribed 372 containers of psychotropic drugs totalling 20,290 tablets.
In order not to arouse suspicion, the man then got the medicines in different pharmacies across Malaga province, obtaining up to six boxes in a single day.
On some occasions, a pharmacy itself cancelled the prescription as a precautionary measure due to the suspicion that the drug was being used illegally.
That block was later lifted by the doctors themselves at the health centre so that the drug could be administered.
The Guardia Civil says that this type of psychotropic medicine is usually taken by drug addicts and fetches a high price if sold on the black market.
