<figure id="attachment_399967" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-399967" style="width: 1920px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="0d5b726c"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/58b8c2351df4b1ed6494105ae4b15d3b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-399967" class="wp-caption-text">The arrested woman was in possession of a large quantity of psychotropic drugs (image shown)</figcaption></figure>
<p> Ryoji Takahama, 77, a former narcotics control officer of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, has been at the forefront of drug case investigations from the Showa period to the Heisei period, dealing with ever-changing drug crimes. He has been at the forefront of drug case investigations from the Showa to the Heisei Era.</p>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> The case was discovered by a club hostess who was a methamphetamine offender.</span></h3>
<p> This case was also aired on &#8220;Super TV Joho Saizensen&#8221; (Nippon Television Network Corporation) as &#8220;Narcotics G-men Gekito 24 Jikan&#8221; in June 2004, when I was the chief of the Investigation Department of the Kinki District Narcotics Control Office. The case began with information that a hostess in her 20s, who worked mainly at a club in Kitashinchi, one of Osaka&#8217;s entertainment districts, while modeling at a photo shoot held by a famous production company, was using stimulants, and after an internal investigation, her residence was searched.</p>
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<p> During that search, we found methamphetamine as per our information and caught the woman red-handed on the spot. At that time, 100 psychotropic &#8220;Rohypnol&#8221; tablets (one box) were found in the room and seized. Rohypnol&#8221; is a psychotropic sleeping pill. It is prescribed by a doctor at a hospital based on a prescription, so there is no problem with possessing it. However, transferring it or possessing it for the purpose of transferring it is a violation of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Law and is punishable by law.</p>
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<p> Psychotropic drugs prescribed by a doctor are not given by the box in any hospital or clinic, but usually in the form of a sheet of 20 or 30 tablets. The investigation revealed that the psychotropic drugs had been given to the woman for free by a 70-year-old doctor who had visited the club for the first time. This doctor was also a commissioned doctor of the police department.</p>
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<p> It seems that the doctor, in order to curry favor with the hostess he served, turned the water on her <span class="strongInContent">and asked her if there was anything she wanted</span>. The hostess immediately thought of &#8220;Rohypnol,&#8221; and without much expectation, mentioned the name of this psychotropic drug. The doctor replied, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;I will give it to you later.</span> The conversation ended there and then. Later, the hostess, who had told the doctor, called me on my cell phone and said that she <span class="strongInContent">was near my hostess&#8217;s house and that she would give me the promised psychotropic drug,</span> so I picked it up on the street near my house, but then left it in my residence.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" No &quot;Rohypnol&quot; was found at the hospital."></div>
<h3><span class="strongInContent">A doctor who denies all charges.</span></h3>
<p> After receiving this story, we searched the hospital where the doctor was the director. In order not to provoke patients who were visiting the hospital for consultation, about 15 of us split up during the hospital&#8217;s lunch break to search the hospital and the doctor&#8217;s adjacent home, but the nurses were simply taken aback by the suddenness of the search.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent">I asked the</span> doctor <span class="strongInContent">, &#8220;Doctor, do you know why we brought the warrant?&#8221;</span> I asked, &#8220;I <span class="strongInContent">don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know. There is nothing against the law,&#8221; and &#8220;We don&#8217;t handle psychotropic drugs in our hospital, so we don&#8217;t have any such thing,&#8221;</span> completely denying the charges. As the doctor said, no psychotropic drugs were found in the hospital or at his home.</p>
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<p> The search went on for a long time. As the time ticked away with no evidence at all, one of the investigators found a single slip in a huge stack of slips, which read &#8220;Rohypnol 100 tablets. Apparently, the doctor had ordered it without telling the nurse, just to give to the hostess as a gift.</p>
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<p> Anyway, this finally corroborated the hostess&#8217; statement. However, after the search was over, we asked the doctor to voluntarily accompany us to question her, and he <span class="strongInContent">replied, &#8220;I questioned the hostess at the restaurant.</span> He denied committing the crime, claiming, &#8221; <span class="strongInContent">I did give it to her, but it was part of a medical procedure.</span></p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">Other doctors testified that it was not a medical procedure.</span></h3>
<p> Whether or not the case could be built depended on whether or not the doctor&#8217;s alleged interaction with the woman at the club constituted a medical procedure, such as a medical interview and examination. Normally, a doctor at a hospital or clinic would conduct a medical interview and examination and prescribe a psychotropic drug, in this case &#8220;Rohypnol. The doctor allegedly interviewed and examined the hostess at the club, but the location was a club in Kitashinchi, an inappropriate place for such an interview and examination, and the exchange was as simple as asking if there was anything she wanted.</p>
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<p> We needed to clarify whether this constituted a medical procedure or not. We randomly selected several hospitals and asked the doctors. All of them answered that it did not constitute &#8220;medical practice. Therefore, the prosecutor was able to prosecute the 70-year-old doctor for violating the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Control Law.</p>
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<p> The doctor was subsequently given a suspended sentence, and the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare handed down a three-year suspension of his practice (administrative punishment). The doctor was written in the media as having &#8220;lost his way in love at a very old age,&#8221; and I believe he should have been condemned for his ungodly behavior in taking advantage of his position as a doctor, which is said to be a holy profession.</p>


 A large quantity of psychotropic drugs was found in the room of a hostess in her 20s who was arrested for a methamphetamine crime. A doctor in his 70s was named. A former narcotics officer, who was on the scene from the Showa era to the Heisei era, looks back on the case.

A hostess in her twenties asked him, “Is there anything you want? A 70-year-old doctor falls in love with an elderly woman.

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