Source link Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Rwanda have followed Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in withdrawing JNJ’s cough syrup for kids Drug regulatory authorities in Tanzania, Rwanda and Zimbabwe have issued a recall for a batch of Benylin Pediatric, a children’s cough syrup made by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), after Nigeria’s food and drug regulator announced […]
Source link The kidnappers who took Abdul Arfath last month demanded $1,200 in ransom from his family A student from India who had moved to the US last year was found dead days after going missing, New Delhi’s consulate in New York said on Tuesday. Mohammed Abdul Arfath, a 25-year-old who was pursuing a Master’s […]
Source link The substance, known as ‘kush’, has reportedly caused hundreds of deaths in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone has declared a “national emergency on drug abuse” amid calls from health services and local communities to stop the spread of a synthetic drug that reportedly contains human bones and has led to hundreds of deaths. The […]
Source link The SpaceX CEO has said he uses “a small amount” of ketamine to treat depression Space travel tycoon Elon Musk has opened up about his struggle with depression, telling broadcaster Don Lemon that he uses ketamine to get out of a “negative frame of mind.” Musk’s critics have long accused him of abusing […]
Source link James Cleverly made the remark on the same day that parliament discussed tightening laws against drink spiking The UK home secretary has apologized for his “ironic joke” about giving his wife a date rape drug. The Sunday Mirror earlier reported that James Cleverly made the off-color remark just hours after announcing measures to […]
Source link Overdose-related deaths are the highest they’ve ever been in the UK, and a super-strong new drug is hitting the streets Major cities in the UK may risk facing a similar epidemic of synthetic opioid deaths as in the US, a top police chief told the Telegraph on Wednesday. The epidemic of drug overdoses […]
Source link Almost 1.5 tons of the synthetic drug mephedrone and 35 tons of components for it have been seized, the Interior Ministry has revealed Police have busted a major network of drug laboratories in Moscow and several other regions of the country, Russia’s Interior Ministry has said. The illegal activity was supervised from Ukraine, […]
Source link On the Myanmar border, armed separatists, the narcotics trade and addiction are big problems, but not for this young police officer Bollywood movies depict cops as larger-than-life, fighting crime the hard way. Pritpal Kaur, a 38-year-old member of the Indian Police Service (IPS), is also in law enforcement, but she shot to fame […]
Source link The US has dropped trade restrictions against a Chinese institute to win Beijing’s support on halting the flow of fentanyl President Joe Biden’s administration has dropped trade restrictions against the Chinese government’s forensic science institute as part of a push to persuade Beijing to help block the trafficking of fentanyl and its precursor […]