Tag: Opioid Crisis

Two months after the BBC aired a damning exposé on the opioid crisis unfolding across parts of West Africa, including Ghana, the silence from Ghana’s top regulatory and enforcement bodies ...

The rapid expansion of the illicit synthetic drug trade is reshaping the global narcotics market and intensifying a public health crisis, according to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).  In ...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has addressed concerns raised in the recent BBC Africa Eye investigative report titled Who is Flooding West Africa with Opioids?  The report exposed the ...

The Minister warned that addiction to these substances could place a heavy burden on the nation.