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Ban of codeine: Merely scratching the surface, insists Kwara CON
A former chairman of Kwara State chapter of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (CPN), Babatunde Samuel, has described the recent ban of Codeine in Nigeria as “a drop in the ocean” of drug abuse syndication in the country.
The development is coming on the heels of a denial by the management of Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Industries Limited in Ilorin that the company was allegedly mass producing and dispensing the banned substance in the town and its environs.
Samuel, in a chat with The Guardian in Ilorin, said as timely as the intervention of the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, leading to the ban, may be, a vast majority of healthcare professionals see it as merely scratching the surface of a deeply-rooted problem.
He stated: “What goes around comes around. The Nigeria government, the health system itself, including the practitioners, all has a chunk of the blame for this plight. “The question that every concerned citizen should be asking now is: How did we get into this mess that has brought untold suffering to our youths especially and brought about a national embarrassment to the citizenry? Where do we head for hence?”
The Guardian, May 5, 2018
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