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Bajaj Healthcare Enters Highly-Regulated Opium Processing Business
Indian pharmaceutical company Bajaj Healthcare Ltd said on Wednesday it was entering the highly-regulated opiate processing business after winning two tenders from the government.
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In Terms Of Users, India One Of The World's Largest Opiate Market, Says UN Report
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) World Drug Report, India is one of the world's single largest opiate markets in terms of users and likely to be vulnerable to increased supply.
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Indrani Mukerjea Drug Overdose: Her Urine Test Shows Cannabinoids, Opiates And Cocaine
Indrani Mukerjea didn't just consume an alarming amount of benzodiazepine - 32 times more than the toxic cut-off level - but several other narcotic and psychotropic substances were also found in her urine.
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Social Media Looks Like the New Opiate of the Masses
With Facebook enduring a wave of public criticism for its cavalier approach to user privacy, it's becoming more apparent how important social media has become.
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24 Million 'Fighter Drug' Painkillers From India, Meant For ISIS, Seized In Italy: Report
Italian police have seized 50 million euros worth of tablets of a synthetic opiate destined to be sold by the ISIS terror group in Libya to raise funds for attacks, a court said Friday. Financial police discovered over 24 million Tramadol tablets, en route from India to Libya, at the port of Gioia Tauro in southern Italy.
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Bidding Goodbye To Addiction
For the last few decades, most countries in the world have been in the grip of the epidemic of Addiction. It is widely believed that trade in illicit drugs is the largest business in the world and so, the supply of drugs is not going to dry up for the epidemic to get over. What is required is for the demand to be reduced or for the addict to become...
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Adolf Hitler Was Drug Addict, Veins Collapsed Due To Injections: Book
Adolf Hitler was a gibbering "super- junkie" whose veins were all but destroyed by thousands of opiate injections and the Nazi dictator's heavy reliance on drugs was behind his "increasingly erratic" decision-making in later stages of World War II, a new book has claimed.
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Brain Mechanism That Increases Pain Threshold Identified
Scientists have shown for the first time that the number of opiate receptors in brain increases to combat severe pain in arthritis sufferers, a finding that may lead to a way to increase the brain's pain threshold.
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Amanda Peterson, Can't Buy Me Love Actress, Dies at 43: Reports
Amanda Peterson, who reportedly died from an accidental overdose of a deadly combination of multiple drugs, had a variety of prescription drugs in her system, including anti-anxiety medication, anti-psychotic medication, opiates and marijuana
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Sun Pharma Rises 2% on Acquiring Opiates Business in Australia
Sun Pharma in an announcement said that it acquired GSK's two opiates manufacturing facilities in Port Fairy and Latrobe in Australia.
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Sun Pharma to Buy GSK's Opiates Business in Australia
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, India's largest drugmaker by sales, said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy GlaxoSmithKline's opiates business in Australia.
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Justin Bieber: the making of a teen idol
In a world ruled by social media, Justin Bieber's brand of music proved an opiate for the digital masses. As music critics listened and watched in growing disbelief, the 13-year-old YouTube star became a supernova of sorts, shored up by a vast bank of mostly-young fans, or Beliebers.
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Injection to curb alcohol dependence
A once-a-month injection may help alcoholics maintain sobriety. Naltrexone is a drug that blocks opiate receptors and has been used to treat drug addiction, but previous studies looking at its effects in people with alcoholism had produced varying results.
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Bajaj Healthcare Enters Highly-Regulated Opium Processing Business
Indian pharmaceutical company Bajaj Healthcare Ltd said on Wednesday it was entering the highly-regulated opiate processing business after winning two tenders from the government.
-
In Terms Of Users, India One Of The World's Largest Opiate Market, Says UN Report
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) World Drug Report, India is one of the world's single largest opiate markets in terms of users and likely to be vulnerable to increased supply.
-
Indrani Mukerjea Drug Overdose: Her Urine Test Shows Cannabinoids, Opiates And Cocaine
Indrani Mukerjea didn't just consume an alarming amount of benzodiazepine - 32 times more than the toxic cut-off level - but several other narcotic and psychotropic substances were also found in her urine.
-
Social Media Looks Like the New Opiate of the Masses
With Facebook enduring a wave of public criticism for its cavalier approach to user privacy, it's becoming more apparent how important social media has become.
-
24 Million 'Fighter Drug' Painkillers From India, Meant For ISIS, Seized In Italy: Report
Italian police have seized 50 million euros worth of tablets of a synthetic opiate destined to be sold by the ISIS terror group in Libya to raise funds for attacks, a court said Friday. Financial police discovered over 24 million Tramadol tablets, en route from India to Libya, at the port of Gioia Tauro in southern Italy.
-
Bidding Goodbye To Addiction
For the last few decades, most countries in the world have been in the grip of the epidemic of Addiction. It is widely believed that trade in illicit drugs is the largest business in the world and so, the supply of drugs is not going to dry up for the epidemic to get over. What is required is for the demand to be reduced or for the addict to become...
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Adolf Hitler Was Drug Addict, Veins Collapsed Due To Injections: Book
Adolf Hitler was a gibbering "super- junkie" whose veins were all but destroyed by thousands of opiate injections and the Nazi dictator's heavy reliance on drugs was behind his "increasingly erratic" decision-making in later stages of World War II, a new book has claimed.
-
Brain Mechanism That Increases Pain Threshold Identified
Scientists have shown for the first time that the number of opiate receptors in brain increases to combat severe pain in arthritis sufferers, a finding that may lead to a way to increase the brain's pain threshold.
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Amanda Peterson, Can't Buy Me Love Actress, Dies at 43: Reports
Amanda Peterson, who reportedly died from an accidental overdose of a deadly combination of multiple drugs, had a variety of prescription drugs in her system, including anti-anxiety medication, anti-psychotic medication, opiates and marijuana
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Sun Pharma Rises 2% on Acquiring Opiates Business in Australia
Sun Pharma in an announcement said that it acquired GSK's two opiates manufacturing facilities in Port Fairy and Latrobe in Australia.
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Sun Pharma to Buy GSK's Opiates Business in Australia
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, India's largest drugmaker by sales, said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy GlaxoSmithKline's opiates business in Australia.
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Justin Bieber: the making of a teen idol
In a world ruled by social media, Justin Bieber's brand of music proved an opiate for the digital masses. As music critics listened and watched in growing disbelief, the 13-year-old YouTube star became a supernova of sorts, shored up by a vast bank of mostly-young fans, or Beliebers.
-
Injection to curb alcohol dependence
A once-a-month injection may help alcoholics maintain sobriety. Naltrexone is a drug that blocks opiate receptors and has been used to treat drug addiction, but previous studies looking at its effects in people with alcoholism had produced varying results.
