Karkoubi, the Moroccan drug that ravages young people in Spain

Rivotril sales in pharmacies in Spain have more than doubled in the last five years, reaching almost four million boxes sold each year. A good part ends up on the black market where it is used to prepare karkoubi, a powerful drug that is wreaking havoc among young people.

“Two years ago I received a call from a pharmacy in Castellón. They had a client with a “dubious” prescription for Rivotril 2 mg made with my supposed signature. They asked me if he was my patient. He wasn’t. They had copied a private prescription and ordered a stamp with my name and membership number to falsify everything,” he told The country a clinical psychiatrist in Barcelona, ​​with more than thirty years of experience.