Tag: Opioid Crisis

Ghana’s opioid crisis has been spiraling out of control for nearly a decade, leaving experts alarmed at the lack of an effective national response.  Dr. Kwame Sarpong Asiedu, Health Fellow ...

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.