Sierra Leone, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria and several more countries in West Africa are in the midst of an overlooked opioid crisis that’s crippling the population and devastating families. The drugs that are fueling this crisis aren’t made in makeshift labs, but imported by the millions from India’s pharmaceutical industry.
The depressing part is how these crises always follow the same pattern: companies make money for years, governments barely react, and by the time people care an entire generation is already dealing with the damage.
this is not something unusual, it’s like saying “how china’s manufacturing industry fuels microplastic crisis”. it so happens that manufacture of many APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients, especially generics on account of lower profit margin) got over time outsourced to china and india. what else do you want? cut off entire countries from opioids import? there are legit importers everywhere and it’s that countries’ regulators/customs/etc job to figure it out
