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  "textContent": "They come in blister packs of 10 like any normal painkiller and you can buy them easily in roadside kiosks and street pharmacies across west Africa. Millions of tapentadol tablets from India are helping drive a deadly opioid epidemic ravaging the region, with officials and researchers telling AFP that they are also being added to […]\n\nThe post Indian pharma fuels Africa’s ‘zombie drug’ and opioid crisis appeared first on Digital Journal.",
  "title": "Indian pharma fuels Africa’s ‘zombie drug’ and opioid crisis"
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