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Monday, November 4, 2024
TopicDrug addiction

Topic: drug addiction

More Indians getting hooked on opioid painkillers. Doctors warn of possible ‘pharma opioid epidemic’

Addiction treatment centres across India are observing an uptick in patients grappling with abuse of opium-derived painkillers like Tramadol, specialists say.

New drug to treat cannabis addiction shows promising results, no withdrawal symptoms in trials

French biotech firm developed & tested drug which blocks human body’s cannabinoid receptor pathway that causes addiction, according to report in Nature Medicine journal.

‘Fancy cars, guns, clout’ — in Amritpal’s militia, ‘brainwashed’ youth & addicts in awe of his ‘rebel’ image

Residents of Jallupur Khera village said Amritpal's influence extended only to the youth, and elderly members of the village had long since distanced themselves from his talks of Khalistan.

Smack & ‘solution’ are consuming Delhi’s homeless kids. For them it’s a refuge

Chasing the next high is the only thing that ‘makes life worth living’ for many of Delhi’s street children, some as young as 8. Most don’t want to be ‘rescued'.

Scientists identify brain pattern for drug & food craving, can be used to diagnose addiction

Dubbed ‘Neurobiological Craving Signature’, this brain pattern can track the degree of craving and differentiate drug users from non-users.

Licensed to torture: How drug rehabs in Himachal use beatings to ‘treat’ addicts

Fenced off with barbed wire and guarded by pitbulls, many drug rehabs are more like prisons than hospitals. Breaking the rules could mean sleep deprivation, stripping, assault.

Children will act as informers to help govt keep other kids away from drugs

272 districts have been selected across India for comprehensive action under the plan formulated by national child rights panel and NCB.

Lockdown places Punjab’s 3 lakh drug addicts at risk of overdose, relapse or infection

Clinics are opening for only a few hours, leading to crowding, and the Amarinder Singh government’s solution has its own set of problems. 

CRPF personnel in J&K to get training on de-addiction and drug abuse prevention

Idea is to equip CRPF personnel with knowledge, skills to decrease drug dependency around them — either among peers or in communities where they are deployed.

Can death penalty for drug dealers solve the addiction problem in Punjab or is it just politics?

Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh wrote to Rajnath Singh Wednesday, recommending death penalty for first-time drug peddlers in Punjab. Experts weigh in.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.