Drug Rehabilitation Centre

Authorities in Vietnam are searching for nearly 100 drug users who escaped from an overcrowded state-owned rehabilitation centre in the Mekong Delta, state media said Monday.

The death number from a fire at a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran rose to 32, local media reported today, up from an earlier count of 27.

A woman from the United States who travelled to Mexico to receive treatment at a drug rehabilitation centre was reportedly murdered and dismembered.

Police have arrested 8 persons for allegedly killing an inmate of a private drug rehabilitation centre by beating him and pouring molten plastic on his private parts and then hurriedly cremating the body in Gujarat's Patan town, an official said.

A drug addict allegedly killed his entire family days after returning from a rehabilitation centre, in the latest of grisly crimes that have shocked Delhi.

Courts in Punjab are sending drug addicts to prisons and not de-addiction centres, though the law provides for such rehabilitation of persons indulging in substance abuse, according to a study by a think tank.

Scammers found that Google ads were an easy way to defraud treatment-seekers in an industry in which regulations vary greatly by jurisdiction.

Vietnamese police hunted Monday for hundreds of drug addicts who escaped from a compulsory rehabilitation centre, with some using sticks and fire extinguishers to break out.

Nearly 600 injecting drug users visit the Tarn Taran civil hospital in Punjab every day for Opioid replacement therapy (ORT), a harm reduction strategy which helps clients keep off injecting drugs, reducing risk of blood borne diseases like HIV and Hepatitis B. The doses of crushed buprenorphine are supervised as clients could divert the tablets an...

The Parkash Singh Badal government's objections about the film Udta Punjab notwithstanding, the drug menace in Punjab is very evident on the ground. The de-addiction centres are thriving, with a continuous inflow of patients. And most of them agree that addiction is on the rise, NDTV found.

Few women drug users step out of the shadows. Because of societal expectation of women as wives, mothers and daughters, the barriers of stigma and discrimination are greater than those faced by men. They also face a greater vulnerability to disease and violence.

Drug rehabilitation centres in the city have recorded some shocking changes with regard to the number of narcotic users this year. Rehabilitation centres recorded a shocking increase in the number of pre-teens seeking help for drug abuse. According to many such centres, 13 is currently the average age of drug abusers in the city, while 16 was the a...

Authorities in Vietnam are searching for nearly 100 drug users who escaped from an overcrowded state-owned rehabilitation centre in the Mekong Delta, state media said Monday.

The death number from a fire at a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran rose to 32, local media reported today, up from an earlier count of 27.

A woman from the United States who travelled to Mexico to receive treatment at a drug rehabilitation centre was reportedly murdered and dismembered.

Police have arrested 8 persons for allegedly killing an inmate of a private drug rehabilitation centre by beating him and pouring molten plastic on his private parts and then hurriedly cremating the body in Gujarat's Patan town, an official said.

A drug addict allegedly killed his entire family days after returning from a rehabilitation centre, in the latest of grisly crimes that have shocked Delhi.

Courts in Punjab are sending drug addicts to prisons and not de-addiction centres, though the law provides for such rehabilitation of persons indulging in substance abuse, according to a study by a think tank.

Scammers found that Google ads were an easy way to defraud treatment-seekers in an industry in which regulations vary greatly by jurisdiction.

Vietnamese police hunted Monday for hundreds of drug addicts who escaped from a compulsory rehabilitation centre, with some using sticks and fire extinguishers to break out.

Nearly 600 injecting drug users visit the Tarn Taran civil hospital in Punjab every day for Opioid replacement therapy (ORT), a harm reduction strategy which helps clients keep off injecting drugs, reducing risk of blood borne diseases like HIV and Hepatitis B. The doses of crushed buprenorphine are supervised as clients could divert the tablets an...

The Parkash Singh Badal government's objections about the film Udta Punjab notwithstanding, the drug menace in Punjab is very evident on the ground. The de-addiction centres are thriving, with a continuous inflow of patients. And most of them agree that addiction is on the rise, NDTV found.

Few women drug users step out of the shadows. Because of societal expectation of women as wives, mothers and daughters, the barriers of stigma and discrimination are greater than those faced by men. They also face a greater vulnerability to disease and violence.

Drug rehabilitation centres in the city have recorded some shocking changes with regard to the number of narcotic users this year. Rehabilitation centres recorded a shocking increase in the number of pre-teens seeking help for drug abuse. According to many such centres, 13 is currently the average age of drug abusers in the city, while 16 was the a...