Malpractice in uniform

Reports of rotten apples in a highly regarded medical profession have managed to shock society, again. This time, a psychiatrist at the Police General Hospital (PGH) has been arrested for allegedly buying 15 million baht of alpozaram — a controlled substance that can be used as a recreational drug — to resell at inflated prices.

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Pol Col Anchulee Theerawongpaisal was arrested yesterday along with other suspects. Police also searched her room at a police flat in the Phaya Thai area and found over 170,000 tablets, including alprazolam and other Type-2 and Type-4 narcotic substances.

Apart from working at the PGH as a psychiatrist and drug therapist, Dr Anchulee moonlighted at 12 private clinics and hospitals as a licensed doctor. Police investigators allege she used these private clinics to order controlled substances from 2023 onwards.

These medicines were allegedly sent to her police flat and redistributed to other drugstores and outlets for resale as recreational drugs. Police estimate she might have made as much as 80 million baht. Alpozaram can be used recreationally and as a “date rape drug” for illegal sale.