Paris, France, May 14, 2026 (AFP) - AFP Special Advisory: India pharma fuels Africa's opioid and 'zombie drug' epidemic

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We will shortly move the following investigation: Africa-India-drugs-tapentadol,INVESTIGATION NEW DELHI They come in blister packs like any normal painkiller and you can buy them easily in street pharmacies across west Africa. But the tapentadol tablets flooding in from India are driving a deadly opioid epidemic adding to the carnage created by the "zombie drug" kush. 1,900 words by Arunabh Saikia with Leslie Fauvel in Abuja, Kadiatou Sakho in L......

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