Drugs containing codeine may soon begin to be sold only by prescription.

Desomorphine is made from drugs that have come under the close attention of drug fighters. This is one of the main sources of death in the country, along with Afghan heroin, said the head of drug control, Viktor Ivanov. He promised that the question of...

Desomorphine is made from drugs that have come under the close attention of drug fighters. This is one of the main sources of death in the country, along with Afghan heroin, said the head of drug control, Viktor Ivanov. He promised that the department would consider the sale of codeine-containing drugs in a week and a half.

Ivanov said that more than one hundred thousand young people aged 15 to 30 die in Russia every year. According to Ivanov, this directly indicates the direct connection of this catastrophic lethality with drugs.

According to the message "Echo of Moscow"