It looks like the opioid crisis has finally made it to West Africa courtesy of predatory pharmaceutical companies. The African countries affected by this will never recover from this. Mental health and substance use is heavily stigmatized, and the public health systems are not in place to handle a crisis like this.
BBC News
Exposing an Indian pharma firm fuelling West Africa's opioid crisis - BBC News
An Indian drug maker tells a BBC undercover team its addictive cocktail drug is “very harmful” but “this is business”.
