This is very topical. I've just come through Krygiz and Tajik from Uzbekistan and sure enough the travellers I met in Khiva told of one of their friends who has been arrested and is awaiting sentencing in jail for codeine phosphate.
As a precaution I binned any dodgy looking tablets from my first aid kit (you can get what you need in-country by and large). We were questioned about firstaid kit in Uzbekistan and waved through Tajik border but at the Kyrgiz border they checked EVERYTHING. Down to the writing on the water purifier tablets. So it can happen.
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