Painkiller Pipeline: 300 Million Tapentadol Pills Sent from India to West Africa

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Indian companies have shipped more than 320 million synthetic opioid pills to West Africa – where they have not been approved by regulators – over the past three years, a Bellingcat investigation has found. […]

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