The insomnia drug mentioned by the family has become known on social media due to its side effects
Summary
Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes was arrested after trying to ask for a loan from her now dead uncle. Her family members report that she used drugs, including zolpidem, which has side effects such as hallucinations, agitation, nightmares and depression.
Family members of Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes I believe he was under the influence of drugs when his uncle, Paolo Roberto Braga, is dead. That day she took him to a bank branch to try to get a loan. One of the remedies mentioned by relatives is zolpidembecame known on the Internet thanks to reports from users of the medicine.
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“I looked on Shopee and found that I made an amazing purchase of zolpidem yesterday,” one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter) this week. “I will never take zolpidem again in my life, it’s one night more chaotic than the other,” said another person on the same social network.
The remedy is indicated for the treatment of insomnia in adults. Among the common side effects, the leaflet indicates hallucinations, agitation, nightmares and depression. The person who mentioned Érika’s use of zolpidem was her brother, Elizeu Nunes dos Santos, in an interview with the newspaper The globe.
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Érika’s son, Lucas Nunes dos Santos, 27, reinforced the hypothesis.
“She was under the influence of drugs. I’m sure she didn’t realize that Uncle Paulo was already dead. In normal judgment, my mother wouldn’t have spoken or asked a dead person to sign a document,” he told the newspaper. .
According to Lucas, who is a military firefighter, his mother had been treating depression since 2019, and since then, the use of different medications has become a constant in her life. Last Sunday, 21st, in an interview with Fantasticfrom TV Globo, the family members showed two psychiatric reports, already sent to the courts, which require Érika’s hospitalization.
The admission requests mention “auditory hallucinations” and “drug addiction”.
Investigations
Érika was arrested red-handed on the 16th, after having found that the elderly Paulo Roberto Braga, 68 years old, had died when his niece was trying to get him to sign the permission to withdraw a loan of R$17 thousand, in a agency in Rio de Janeiro. Her arrest was later converted into a preventive measure.
In the decision, Judge Rachel Assad da Cunha said the woman had shown no concern for the condition of the elderly man who claimed to be a carer.
The defendant’s defense appealed the decision and requested house arrest to be able to take care of her 14-year-old daughter. The girl is diagnosed with a chronic illness. To justify the request, the defense argued that Erika posed no risk and was cooperating with the investigations.
Source: Terra
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