Ban Tramadol, Codeine syrup now, pharmacist tells NAFDAC
Lai Gobir who made the call while fielding questions from Journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State Capital, also stressed the need for the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Custom, Immigration, and Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria to collectively work together towards addressing the menace.
The pharmacist, who decried the abuse of drugs in the society, emphasized the need for all the agencies saddled with the responsibility to control the use of drugs to employ the service of professionals.
Gobir asked the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control to immediately de-register drugs that had been misused in the society, such as Tramadol, Codeine syrup and other drugs that have affected people psychologically.
According to him, people are now highly addicted to such drugs, stressing the need to withdraw them from circulation to safeguard the health of the people and avoid societal disorder as a result of abuse of prescribed medications.
Gobir charged the National Orientation Agency and all the thirty six states Ministry of Information to create awareness on the abuse of drugs by counseling the youths on the dangers of the menace.
He also stressed the need to have rehabilitation centres across the country to counsel and rehabilitate the victims of drug abuse and people that are generally dependent on drugs.
Gobir said government should not rely only on religious leaders to counsel the youths but should also address socio-economic problems that influenced people to engage in abuse of drugs.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Bankole Omishore Memunat Monsuma Yemi Osinbajo Garuba Alikinla Shittu Abiodun Abdulkareem Abdulfatai Salman Baakini Playing Host Elerinjare Abdulwahab Ololele Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa Yusuf Ali Wasiu Onidugbe Yusuf Amuda Gobir Alaiye Ibrahim Bio Surajudeen Akanbi Jani Ibrahim TETFUND Folajimi Aleshinloye Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen Salihu Ajia Ilorin Emirate Staff Association Elerin Of Adanla Irese Yahaya A Paniyaro Buari Edun Abubakar Abdulraheem Kanu Agabi Kulende-UITH Offa Abdullah Janet Amudat Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi Adebara Ahmed Mohammed Rifun Kwara Restoration Project Elerinjare-Ibobo Oke-Ero Barakat Community Secondary School Okedare Kamaldeen Ajibade George Funsho Adebayo Usman Alkali Baba Saheed Alakoso Harafat E. Mukadam Oyedepo Oluranti Idowu Baboko Primary School Academic Staff Union Of Universities Omar Bolaji Gambari Niyi Osundare Solomon Edoja Hameed Oladipupo Ali Oloruntoyosi Thomas Jare Olatundun COVID-19 Palliatives Kulende Adeleke Ogungbe Awoye Benin Republic GAMA Joseph Alex Offorjama AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem Suleiman Ajadi Ahmed Frootify Iyabo Dupe Adekeye Olatunji Moronfoye Isiaka Gold Usman Rifun Jebba Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission FERMA Kishira Issa Oloruntogun Sebastine Obasi Maryam Ado Bayero Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye

