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It is a very worrisome development. I will write to all relevant agencies, as well as the companies producing and distributing this substance.

BigYash:
Even little boys and girls chew and lick it these days. They call it sweet.. The matter go just dey tire me.. Most pharmacy deal on it .. But police do arrest ,when they see you with it.. But its just to get their own money,then they collect the thing from the suspect to lick too.. My brother welcome to Nigeria..

The attached piece of research work was not done by me. I had only referenced someone who had done similar work as what I am doing right now. Hope you understand.

dettolgel:
So you want to increase the readership of your paper via unorthodox way abi? See format

Yes, I'm considering an undercover investigation via any media ready to work with me on this, as we did during the codeine era.

lereinter:
It seems ndlea is doing well, contact them.

All go through BBC

I am silent on the town, it's intentional, as I do not want stigmatisation.

romunu:
What is the name of the town?

I am working on a letter to both agencies

ajailer:
Write NAFDAC and NDLEA.

I am a Nigerian scientist and researcher based in the USA. Recently, I vsited my town in delta state, Nigeria for a research on substance abuse.

What I saw, to say the least is alarming. A whole town in delta state is hooked on a drug called SWINOL.

This drug contains Flunitrazepam, a highly potent and dangerous benzodiazepam, which can be lethal and highly addictive even at a dose low as 1mg. This is very worrisome, as the addicts to SWINOL cuts across all age groups in the town.

I made some background research and findings reveal that the drug is produced by Swiss Pharma Nigeria Limited.

I visited the open drug market in Onitsha, and I got the drug easily. It is virtually sold in all the shops I entered. This is a schedule A controlled substance, the how come it's every where in the open market. I visited the open market in Lagos, it is sold there too freely. Other brands I saw include Rophynol and Hypnox.

We must do something urgently about this life threatening drug called SWINOL. It is killing the youths in my town.

I call on the Federal Government to look into the sales and distribution of SWINOL, HYPNOX AND OTHERS.

You can read about substance abuse from this piece. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331829047_DRUG_ADDICTION_AMONG_NIGERIAN_THE_WAY_FORWARD

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