Media: In Russia will start production of morphine

Last Wednesday the head of Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov suggested the country to establish in the territory of the production of potent painkillers. "After the collapse of the USSR we buy them in the international market, but we have the ability to produce anelgetiki at" - he said, and after a few hours followed by experts of Ministry of Health official comment. The chief psychiatrist Eugene Brune country supported this initiative.

Morphine

The question of the organization of production of narcotic anesthetics   in Russia it was raised after the death of the former head of the missile and artillery weapons of the Navy Rear Admiral Retired Vyacheslav Apanasenko. Because of bureaucratic delays pancreatic cancer patients left without the necessary medication, and seeing out of the situation, tried to commit suicide. In the suicide note he asked no one to blame but the Ministry of Health and the Government of the Russian Federation to adopt a law to tighten rules issuance anelgetikov.

February 10 after four days of coma Vyacheslav Apanasenko died without regaining consciousness, and a few days later Russian Federal Drug Control Service manual required the regions to simplify the procedure immediately release potent drugs for seriously ill patients.

Vladmir Ivanov

Vladmir Ivanov

Shortly thereafter, Viktor Ivanov, has prepared a report, argues the need to organize the production of medical morphine in our country.

"In terms of patients provided anelgetikam our country is one of the last places in the world, and this is largely due to the fact that these products do not produce ourselves," - said the head of the Federal Drug Control Service.

He recalled that Russia has a production quota Narcotic painkillers Issued by the International Committee on Drug Control of the UN. "We just do not use it, although they would" - summed Ivanov.

Chief Psychiatrist-narkolov Russian Ministry of Health Eugene Brune also believes that our country should meet the needs of citizens in the analgesic, leveraging its own resources.

Eugene Brune

Eugene Brune

"On the black market medical morphine will not go away, because the drug addicts have long been popular - he was replaced by heroin," - said the expert, report that in recent years of such leaks, according to him, was not.

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