COUGH SYRUP WITH CODEINE NO LONGER TO BE SOLD OVER THE COUNTER - HEALTH MINISTER

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said that cough syrups with codeine will henceforth be treated as a narcotic medicine that will not be sold over the counter.
Chukwu said this in Abuja on Wednesday, when the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Mr Olumide Akintayo, and the new national executive council of the society paid him a courtesy visit.
He expressed concern over the rising abuse of cough syrup with codeine, and said that the ministry was taking drastic steps to regulate the availability of the drug.
Source: Compass