2024-04-20 04:19:05
The woman offered fentanyl through social networks and delivered the doses wearing her uniform.
Natalia Elena Contreras Berrios is the name of the nursing technician (TENS) who was arrested for steal and sell fentanyl vials in the commune of San Antonio, in the Valparaíso Region.
The 29-year-old woman was accused of stealing the so-called zombie drug from the Intermedical clinic Where he worked.
As revealed by Reportajes T13, Contreras offered the sale of fentanyl through social networks and delivered the doses wearing his uniform.
What is fentanyl?
It is a powerful synthetic agonist opioid used as an analgesic and It has a higher potency than morphine. It is used transdermally in the form of patches, which gradually release the medication, sublingually, in the form of a nasal spray, tablets.
Along with this, only in the last 10 years in In the United States, nearly 70,000 people died from an overdose of the zombie drug, which has generated a health and criminal crisis.
Sale of fentanyl on WhatsApp
Through a T13 report, it was found that Natalia Contreras called herself The TENS and sold fentanyl on WhatsApp. Through that application, she summoned her clients to a plaza of San Antonio where he delivered a vial or a withheld medical prescription stamped in white so that the person could fill it out as they deemed appropriate.
Colonel Eduardo Palma, of the OS-7 of the Carabineros, indicated that the woman He sold the fentanyl or the prescription for $15,000.
Along with this, it was reported that the nursing technician had been previously investigated by less serious injuries, drug use or possession, simple damage and in addition, he has a conviction for robbery with force in an uninhabited place.
After the arrest of Contreras, Colonel Palma stated that “there are several presumptions that shed light that this person could have been delivering less fentanyl to patients of what was being prescribed.”
Meanwhile, Israel González from the Intermedical Clinic commented that “it is very strange, we work with professionals. This person had been working with us for almost a year, we had not detected any anomaly (…) It is sad that a person is harming himself but is also harming the population.”