Indian Pharma Fuels Africa Opioid Crisis

This is a Ghana news story, published by BBC, that relates primarily to Tafrodol news.

Ghana news

For more Ghana news, you can click here:

more Ghana news

Tafrodol news

For more Tafrodol news, you can click here:

more Tafrodol news

drug discoveries news

For more drug discoveries news, you can click here:

more drug discoveries news

BBC news

For more news from BBC, you can click here:

more news from BBC

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best health news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like drug discoveries news, you might also like this article about

Aveo Pharmaceuticals

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest unlicensed opioids news, legitimate medicines news, drug discoveries news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

illegal opioids

BBC

•

Health

Exposing an Indian pharma firm fuelling West Africa's opioid crisis

Summary

Nutrition label

63% Informative

Aveo Pharmaceuticals , based in Mumbai , makes a range of pills that go under different brand names and are packaged to look like legitimate medicines.

All contain the same harmful mix of ingredients: tapentadol, a powerful opioid, and carisoprodol, so addictive it's banned in Europe .

Despite the risks, these opioids are popular as street drugs in many West African countries, because they are so cheap and widely available.

A combination of tapentadol and carisoprodol is illegal in Ghana and illegal in India .

Aveo Pharmaceuticals sells Tafrodol and similar products to Ghana , Ghana 's national Drug Enforcement Agency says.

Indian drugs regulator says it will take immediate action against any pharmaceutical firm involved in malpractice.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English