Indian authorities have banned two dangerous opioids found fuelling youth abuse of drugs in Nigeria and other parts of West Africa. In a response to a BBC investigation which exposed the manufacturer behind this drugs crisis, India’s Drugs controller general, Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi said permission to manufacture and export the drugs had been withdrawn.
The investigation found one pharmaceutical company, Aveo, had been illegally exporting a harmful mix of tapentadol and carisoprodol in countries like Ghana, Nigeria, and Cote D’Ivoire.
India’s Food and Drug Administration said the company’s factory in Mumbai had since been raided and its entire stock seized.