'Propofest': doctors' private parties with anesthetics stolen from Argentine hospitals
Two healthcare workers dead in Argentina expose a network that stole anesthetics from hospitals for chemsex parties with propofol and fentanyl.
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Propofest: Argentine doctors' parties with anesthetics stolen from hospitals
On Good Friday, nurse Eduardo Betancourt, 44, was found dead at his home in Buenos Aires surrounded by powerful anesthetics such as fentanyl and propofol, along with syringes and latex gloves. Six weeks earlier, a few streets away, anesthesiologist Alejandro Zalazar, 30, had been found lifeless in identical circumstances. Both were healthcare workers; both were victims of a network that stole drugs from hospitals to organize private parties where these substances were injected for sensual purposes and "extreme relaxation." The Argentine press has dubbed the phenomenon 'Propofest', and the investigation points to a chemsenschem ring that has already claimed two lives.
A network of sens parties with hospital drugs
Argentine police have dismantled a network operating within the healthcare sector: doctors and nurses stole anesthetics such as propofol and fentanyl from hospitals to use them at private gatherings. According to initial findings, these parties induced a state of "extreme relaxation" that facilitated sensual practices, with a very high risk of overdose. The term 'chemsenschem' soon came up in conversations: it is nothing new that cases of abuse and addiction have occurred among medical professionals, who have privileged access to drugs. The parallel with Spain is immediate: anesthesiologist Juan Maeso, who infected hundreds of patients with hepatitis C in the 90s, or the doctor from the Puerta de Hierro Hospital who died years ago in similar circumstances. Michael Jackson's death from propofol in 2009 is another reminder of how lethal this cocktail is outside an operating room.
Why Argentina now?
The debate has gone beyond the purely police matter. Some observers point out that deregulation and social liberalism encourage extreme behavior; others, more pragmatic, point to the lack of controls in hospitals and the ease with which restricted-use medications are diverted. In the discussion thread, one group jokes that "while they do this they are not euthanizing young people or sacrificing the elderly," while another recalls that the problem is not new: fentanyl was also disappearing at the Materno Infantil hospital in Badajoz last year. The truth is that the Propofest network has exposed an uncomfortable reality: access to lethal drugs turns some healthcare workers into high-risk addicts.
But the question that remains is to what extent these cases are the tip of the iceberg. If two lives have been lost in Argentina in a few weeks, how many more are happening in silence? The data does not lie, but institutional silence and the lack of controls allow parties to keep proliferating where the line between sedation and death is a matter of micrograms.
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On Good Friday, nurse Eduardo Betancourt, 44, was found dead at his home in Buenos Aires surrounded by powerful anesthetics such as fentanyl and propofol, along with syringes and latex gloves. Six weeks earlier, a few streets away, anesthesiologist Alejandro Zalazar, 30, had been found lifeless in identical circumstances. Both were healthcare workers; both were victims of a network that stole drugs from hospitals to organize private parties where these substances were injected for sensual purposes and "extreme relaxation." The Argentine press has dubbed the phenomenon 'Propofest', and the investigation points to a chemsenschem ring that has already claimed two lives.
A network of sens parties with hospital drugs
Argentine police have dismantled a network operating within the healthcare sector: doctors and nurses stole anesthetics such as propofol and fentanyl from hospitals to use them at private gatherings. According to initial findings, these parties induced a state of "extreme relaxation" that facilitated sensual practices, with a very high risk of overdose. The term 'chemsenschem' soon came up in conversations: it is nothing new that cases of abuse and addiction have occurred among medical professionals, who have privileged access to drugs. The parallel with Spain is immediate: anesthesiologist Juan Maeso, who infected hundreds of patients with hepatitis C in the 90s, or the doctor from the Puerta de Hierro Hospital who died years ago in similar circumstances. Michael Jackson's death from propofol in 2009 is another reminder of how lethal this cocktail is outside an operating room.
Why Argentina now?
The debate has gone beyond the purely police matter. Some observers point out that deregulation and social liberalism encourage extreme behavior; others, more pragmatic, point to the lack of controls in hospitals and the ease with which restricted-use medications are diverted. In the discussion thread, one group jokes that "while they do this they are not euthanizing young people or sacrificing the elderly," while another recalls that the problem is not new: fentanyl was also disappearing at the Materno Infantil hospital in Badajoz last year. The truth is that the Propofest network has exposed an uncomfortable reality: access to lethal drugs turns some healthcare workers into high-risk addicts.
But the question that remains is to what extent these cases are the tip of the iceberg. If two lives have been lost in Argentina in a few weeks, how many more are happening in silence? The data does not lie, but institutional silence and the lack of controls allow parties to keep proliferating where the line between sedation and death is a matter of micrograms.
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