POLICE are urging people to keep an eye out for nearly 400 prescription tablets which were stolen during a raid at a flat in Kidderminster.
The tablets are diazepam which are 5mg, yellow, sedatives and codeine phosphate which are 30mg, white, painkillers. Both are in brown tablet bottles.
The drugs and £40 in cash were stolen from Windsor Drive between 8.30am last Wednesday and 12.30 am last Thursday.
The town's Primary Care Trust issued a warning on the effects of the tablets and a spokesman said: "Diazepam, if taken in a large quantity, may affect muscle co-ordination and speech. It can also cause a lower level of consciousness.
"Codeine phosphate is used as a painkiller and can affect the central nervous and respiratory systems. IIt can cause varying degrees of coma."
Anyone with information should ring Kidderminster Police on 08457 444 888 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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