The rejection will allow the Indian generic companies to make and sell versions of the drug in country where a majority of people live on less than $2 a day.
Following a decision by the Ukrainian government to halt supplies to Eastern Ukraine, major stockouts of OST and other life-saving treatments are anticipated by the end of February.
In the coming years, Myanmar will legally sell coffee to China instead of illicitly selling opium; at least that is how UNODC is planning (again) to tackle rising poppy cultivation in the country.
In the last decade, there has been increasingly big money made from moving cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana from Colombia and Venezuela into Africa and Europe.