India has banned the manufacture and export of two opioids involved in an opioid crisis in West Africa

Good news! I blogged here about the related BBC report.

"India has banned the manufacture and export of two opioids, tapentadol and carisoprodol, after a BBC investigation exposed their role in a drug crisis in West Africa. ..."

"Indian authorities have banned two highly-addictive opioids in response to a BBC investigation which found they were fuelling a public health crisis in parts of West Africa.

In a letter seen by the BBC from India's Drugs Controller General, Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi said permission to manufacture and export the drugs had been withdrawn

BBC Eye found one pharmaceutical company, Aveo, had been illegally exporting a harmful mix of tapentadol and carisoprodol in countries like Ghana, Nigeria, and Cote D'Ivoire.

India's Food and Drug Administration said the company's factory in Mumbai had since been raided and its entire stock seized. ..."

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India bans two opioids behind crisis in West Africa