NAFDAC warns against anti-cough medication containing codeine
Friday, March 30, 2012Omoba
The
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has
warned commercial vehicles and motorcycle operators to stop taking anti-cough
drugs containing codeine because they damage liver and eyes.
Its Director-General, Dr. Paul Orhii, said the agency
had in January 2008 received a note from the International Narcotics Control
Board on the rising abuses of cough remedies containing codeine in Africa.
Orhii,
who spoke at the sensitization of operators at the Jabi Motor Park, Abuja, said
NAFDAC has been educating road transport employees and workers against the
abuse of the drugs to discourage such risk behaviours.
He said: “The agency has noted with concern this rising trend of the abuse of drugs and especially codeine containing preparations in the country.”
According
to him, NAFDAC has conducted a rapid situation assessment in Minna, Niger State;
the Neuropsychiatric Hospitals in Abeokuta, Sokoto, Maiduguri, Enugu, Kaduna,
Benin and Calabar to collect and analyse data on drugs commonly abused in the
areas.
He
listed high incidences of abuse of other drugs substances to include
prescription drugs such as diazepam, tramadol, ketamine, sniffing of solutions
in cold patch used by vulcanisers and inhalation of fuel and nail polish.
Others are sniffing of sand scooped from filthy gutters and in latrines and mixing of monosodium glumate (white magi) with Cola drinks.
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