A Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist, Olajumoke Koyejo, has urged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA to evolve stringent penalties for Pharmaceutical Companies still manufacturing and selling Tramadol and other hard drugs in the country.
koyejo, of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, told Newsmen on Saturday that Tramadol was now being sold almost everywhere in the country.
The addiction professional also called on Government to come up with milder policies to help to reform drug addicts.
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According to her, criminalising drug addiction is certainly not the best because addiction is a chronic disease.
Koyejo said also that policies ought to be in place to check quackery and ensure only experts can see the patients and improve their prognosis.
Besides, she urged professionals to get themselves trained to enable them to always do the right things.
