Question 116 — pharmacy and medications

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Ms. Michèle Tabarot draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the misuse of codeine-based medications by adolescents and young adults. The use of these products, mixed with sodas for euphoric purposes, is in fact more and more frequent, which creates great concern among many drug addiction experts. Thus, the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products indicates an increase in the number of serious cases, poisonings and even deaths linked to this practice which can go so far as to induce a situation of dependence, which is confirmed by the French Observatory of Drugs and Drug Addiction in a recent note. This diversion, already old in the United States, seems to have spread to France through social networks. Many pharmacists, aware of this danger, say they are helpless while Codeine medications are available over the counter. Also, she would like to know the measures that the Government could take to prevent and combat this extremely worrying phenomenon.

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