• Nigeria: Codeine Abuse Spreading Like Wild Fire

    Daily Trust (Abuja), 29 December 2012

    Cough syrup, with or without codeine, is used for the treatment of coughing and related ailments. But in Nigeria today, cough syrup, particularly the one containing codeine - which is to be derived from the opium poppy and is related to morphine and heroin - is being abused by youths, men and women.

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