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OPIOID ADDICTION IN INDIA
Indian pharma firms flood west Africa with powerful opioids despite crackdown: AFP investigationIndian pharmaceutical firms are exporting millions of dollars worth of powerful tapentadol opioids to West Africa, fueling a deadly drugs e...- No 'zombie drug', man seen in Thane video overdosed on pain medicine: PoliceThane police have clarified a viral video showing a disoriented man. The man was not under the influence of a 'zombie drug'. He had taken a...
- Opioid Tapentadol may be put under Narcotics Act to curb its accessThe government is planning to regulate Tapentadol under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. This follows concerns about its...
- China and India sources for fentanyl inputs: US reportFentanyl and other synthetic opioids remain the most lethal drugs trafficked into the United States, causing more than 52,000 US deaths in ...
- India bans production of two drugs ‘behind’ opioid crisis in West AfricaThe Drug Controller General of India has banned the production of tapentadol and carisoprodol after they were found to be illegally exporte...
- Is Trump’s trade battle really a war on drugs?In Manhattan’s Chinatown, two statues represent historic Chinese figures separated by centuries. The article explores Trump's efforts to co...
- India, US agree to share more information to curb illegal opioid tradeThe US and India discussed information sharing on the illegal trade of opioids, such as fentanyl, and countering terrorism. They focused on...
- View: Drug abuse affects more people than Covid yet we bury the issueIf you believe that drug abuse can’t be compared to the Covid-19 pandemic, do browse through India’s first-ever large-scale, nationwide sur...
- Indian-American Gitanjali Rao is on ‘TIME’ cover, Twitter churns out ‘desi parents’ memesShashi Tharoor, Anand Mahindra & Vikas Khanna were left in awe of the young scientist and innovator.
- Centre readies action plan for districts affected by drug abuseIn both Punjab and Haryana, drug addiction is a major political issue as well. While 18 of the 22 districts in Punjab are among those ident...
- India-born billionaire on trial in US for bribing doctorsKapoor is the highest-level pharmaceutical figure to face trial amid the opioid epidemic that's claiming thousands of lives every year.
- The Chitta economy: How the business of drugs works in PunjabIn the last few years, while the business and economy in the state kept sliding, the drugs trade flourished.
- Aurobindo eyes Mallinckrodt Opioids AgainThe US President has declared opioid addiction a public health emergency and drugmakers find themselves under scrutiny for allegedly contri...
- Intas closing in on Mallinckrodt’s US generics businessThis comes as US President Donald Trump has declared opioid addiction a public health emergency in the US and drugmakers have found themsel...
- Why opioid must worry India as much as USThese drugs work on the brain’s reward system, which gives the user “positive sensation” and euphoria.
- Indian-American billionaire charged with leading pharmaceutical fraud scheme in USJohn Nath Kapoor, 74, was arrested by the FBI from his home in Arizona yesterday on charges including racketeering, conspiracy and fraud.
- Opioids can be silent killers if abusedIn 2010, according to the INCB, 99% of the global production of licit opium—580 tonnes—occurred in India.
- Punjab losing battle against drug addiction, says studyPunjab has lost the battle against drug addiction even before it has begun, a study by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Del...
- Punjab sinking in drugs worth Rs 7,500 crore from Pakistan per year: AIIMSThis is a startling revelation given that almost all the heroin that comes to Punjab is through the Pakistan border, pumped in by smugglers...
- AIIMS to start permanent centre for opiate addiction treatmentThe initiative would slash down the treatment cost nearly half of the therapy currently being followed country-wide to treat such patients.
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