Fake medicines that are dangerous to the life and health of consumers continue to flood the markets of developing countries, warns the International Narcotics Control Board. According to this organization, fakes are up to 50% of drugs coming to the markets of developing countries.

"The market of counterfeit medicines poses a serious threat to the health of patients, offering them deprived of the necessary instructions for use, inefficient, substandard and sometimes lethal drugs". - noted in the report.

The authors of the document are also concerned about the sharp increase in abuse of prescription drugs, the illegal turnover of which in the near future may exceed the turnover of traditional drugs - heroin, cocaine and ecstasy.

In particular, in the EU currently prescription drugs are second only to marijuana. At the same time, some potent drugs used as drugs are associated with a more serious risk of overdose compared to illicit drugs.

The UN and the World Health Organization should actively support the fight against counterfeit and illegal drugs in countries that are unable to cope with these problems on their own, the report says..

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