By Kayode Ojewale
Drugs are medicines
with physiological effects when taken which are used to treat illness, relieve
a symptom or modify a chemical process in the body for specific purpose. On the
other hand, fake drugs are drugs with low or wrong concentration of active ingredients,
and in some cases with no active ingredient, packaged and marketed in deceptive
manner. In clear terms, fake drugs are drugs which do not meet regulatory
standards and approvals.
Drug counterfeiters release these drugs for sale at ridiculously
cheap prices. This illicit act of drug counterfeiting by some unscrupulous
elements in the society is not only worrisome and disturbing to the original
manufacturers of the authentic products but also of great concern to the food
and drug administrator and regulator in the country.
