One of the patrons of the restaurant “Expired”, Andrei Şoșa, suspected of drug trafficking and detained following an action of DIICOT, said he was sick, not a criminal, procuring his drugs to treat his insomnia. For what is used and how to legally obtain the medicine.
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In May 2025, the shock purchased 300 tablets containing as an active substance Zolpidem (risk drug), from the United Kingdom. At his home were found 52 pills with Clonazepam (another risk drug), a quantity of cannabis, as well as other substances in progress
Prosecutors accuse the suspect of intending to sell the tablets he ordered by courier. But the driver said, on Facebook, that it is actually “Sick, not an offender”, and the hundreds of tablets represented a personal stock for summer.
In a message that, the shock said, dictated to his lawyer, his wife being the one who posted on Facebook, he says that during the pandemic period he asked for medical support, because he could no longer sleep, and thus discovered Zolpidem, “The medicine that was legally prescribed by a doctor.”
“Miraculous, for the first time after a long time, I could sleep. After I finished the prescribed treatment, I returned to the insomnia, but I did not go to the doctor. A mistake that costs me, “said Cesta. What did he do in return? He was looking for” alternative solutions “, finding a site from England” who was selling Zolpidem free “. “I ordered without thinking for a moment that I was doing something illegal. It is the first time in my life when I deal with the Criminal Code. In fact, the lawyer tells me that it is not from the Criminal Code, but from the special law. he said in the post.
The driver continues to report that he became addicted to Zolpidem “Very easy”. “It has no hallucinogenic effects, it does not make you feel better or worse, it just sends you to sleep. I had come to take up to 5 pills when, after a stressful day, I didn’t want to sleep. Thus I came to consume 100 pills per month, if you were curious what I was doing with the hundreds of pills found by the police. And as the biggest panic of an addict is not to remain without, I recently ordered a need for all summer to start, because in the summer, you all know that I was moving to the sea. I did not hurt anyone and, in my stupidity, I did not know that I was doing something illegal, although I was convinced that, in the long run, I can affect my brain. “also mentions the driver in the post, wondering: “Am I sick, or am I an offender?”.
“After the latest studies, he is also subject to the same risk of addiction”
A psychiatrist explained, for “Adevărul”, what is the drug Zolpidem and under what conditions it is prescribed.
“It is a hypninuctor, a drug intended for the treatment of insomnia. It is prescribed on the secure form. It is a molecule of benzodiazepine used in the treatment of insomnia ”, explained the primary physician Amalia Săndulescu. To get in his possession you cannot simply present yourself at the pharmacy, a special prescription, which is either the specialist or the family doctor.
The sleep disorder that the patient complains is analyzed, and if it is just a self -employed sleep disorder, not associated with other psychiatric diseases, a sleep inductor is recommended for a short period of time.
Zolpidem is one of the drugs used in sleep disorders, the doctor says, because older studies indicated that it has a relatively low risk of dependence. “It seems that after the last studies He is also subject to the same risk of addiction as in the case of other substances intended for treatment for sleep disorders ”says doctor Amalia Săndulescu.
Currently, it is trying to draw up a national register for such substances, so that there is an overview and better control regarding the prescription and consumption of substances with high risk of addiction.
The drug in question has been on the market for a long time and has always been prescribed on the secure form. It can also be prescribed for long periods of time, but reassessment is needed. “Initially the recommendations were that A La Long can be recommended to restore sleep. But when you have a sleep disorder you must analyze very clearly what factors are. the doctor explained.
In patients who are identified and a psychiatric disease, a substance is recommended which, in addition to other roles, also has a sedative and hypnocative role. “For” soft “pathologies, somehow – for depressive -anxious disorders, for the elderly sleep disorders – this kind of substances were recommended that at one point considered that they are quite safe as administration. Subsequently, things and clinical experience somehow led to the area to prescribe drugs in a secure and more caution, there is a risk of addiction after them ”said Dr. Sandulescu.
However, the interruption is not suddenly done, the doctor draws attention. “All drugs are gradually interrupted, especially since we are talking about an action on a certain type of receiver and then the passage is done gradually. Never. None of our medicines we recommend this. Or we switch from one substance to another, there are several ways to switch. This is another part of the discussion.”said Dr. Sandulescu.
Following the reassessment the doctor may decide to renounce the respective substance. However, there are cases in which patients do not accept, and in the case of patients with multiple co-morbidities, in order not to vulnerability, the substance may be maintained, lowering the dose.
“In vain do you want if he does not want to. You have to talk to him, to propose other variants. This implies discomfort,” added the doctor.
On the other hand, it is quite difficult to understand why a patient who has benefited from a doctor’s indication and felt well following the prescribed treatment does not return for consultation and a new prescription.
“For what would you need to go and get off the net if you are in highlight and already have a therapeutic relationship with a doctor and set a therapeutic protocol? Something is not a rule ”, conclude the doctor.
