Browsing Tag: Drugs

Poor countries set to benefit from patent agreement on Aids drugs

Even more importantly, the generics companies will also be allowed to make combinations of drugs from different companies (provided other companies follow Gilead's lead). In an ideal world, anybody with HIV who needed medication would be able to take a single pill once a day in which three or four medicines are combined.
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Rethinking Addiction’s Roots, and Its Treatment

Few addiction medicine specialists advocate a path to recovery that depends solely on pharmacology, however. “The more we learn about the treatment of addiction, the more we realize that one size does not fit all,” said Petros Levounis, who is in charge of the residency at the Addiction Institute of New York at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital.
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End the Curse of Drugs and Foeticide in Punjab: Dr. Bains

It is not only the government but the society at large including socio-religious leaders will have to play an honest role to establish peace and prosperity over this planet to make it a livable haven. Dr Bains stressed that families, doctors, nurses and radiologists who indulge into illegal gender selection for female foeticide must be dealt with severely under strong laws so that the menace is wiped out sternly through social and legal applications.
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UK Does Sikhi Pride

World's oldest marathon runner and a brand ambassador of sports brand Adidas, Fauja Singh who will turn 100 on April 1 today launched a campaign against drug addiction in Punjab by organising a marathon..
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Healing Addiction with Yoga

Addiction treatment centers see yoga as a technique for improving clients’ coping skills...
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Drug addiction blights the Indian state of Punjab

There is growing concern in India about the rapid rise in drug addiction cases in Punjab, one of the country's wealthiest states. The main university in the region has claimed that 70% of young Punjabi men are hooked on drugs or alcohol.
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The Poverty of Plenty

THE 25 crore man stepped in like a thief, eyes wary, searching for a sign that he must run. Jagbeer Singh. Farmer. Bus conductor. Father. Heroin smuggler. Jailbird. Nobody.
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Punjab teeters on edge of crisis as 70% fall into drug addiction

“In rural Punjab, families often try to pass off a drug overdose death either as suicide or an overdose of prescriptive medicines for chronic ailments,” Meena says. The entire state seems to be in denial over its drug addiction and is unwilling to accept its severity, he declares.
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Amritsar: India's Heroin Capital (Video)

Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports on the devastating effects of drugs in one of India's most holy cities, Amritsar.
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Redemption ... Amidst The Drug Wars

During my trip to Punjab this past summer, Dr. Balwant Singh Sekhon arranged for my teenage son, Angad Singh and I to visit the Akal De-addiction Center at Cheema in district Sangrur, Punjab.
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