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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Indian pharma firms flood west Africa with powerful opioids despite crackdown: AFP investigation

New Delhi: Indian pharmaceutical firms are exporting millions of dollars' worth of powerful opioids to west Africa despite a promised crackdown, an AFP investigation found Thursday, with officials saying they are driving a deadly drugs epidemic across the region.

AFP was able to match high-strength tapentadol tablets seized in at least four west African countries with Indian export records through their makers' licence numbers.

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