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The legislators of India have dressed the wound of the cancer patients a bit by giving nod to the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Bill on Friday. This will enable the cancer patients to get an easy access to the pain-killer morphine drugs. Besides, it will be handy for regulating and controlling narcotic drugs.

Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Rawat said Sanjay Dutt has offered to lead an anti-drug campaign to be launched by 6 northern states affected by the drug menace. Sanjay had himself suffered much due to drug addiction early in his career and would like to contribute to the campaign, he said

The Union Health Ministry has invited suggestions for renaming the country's drug regulator CDSCO in line with its expanded roles. In a public notice issued on Thursday, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) said that its name was given considering its role when it was created, but the present nomenclature was not reflecting its roles and responsibilities.

Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman was reportedly discovered with about 65 unused bags of heroin. Drug paraphernalia including bags of heroin, used syringes and a needle that was still sticking out of actor's arm was noticed when police saw his body on Sunday.

The generic drug-maker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries' plant is facing a forced ban by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The high quality industry that got a shock is situated at Karkhadi in Gujarat.

David Coleman Headley is synonymous with the ghastly terror attacks on Mumbai. The 4-day-long coordinated attacks that started on 26 November, 2008, are dubbed as "India's 9/11". Islamist milita...

Mumbai cops had arrested 45 law students allegedly doing dirty party in Lonavala of Mumbai on Thursday. But police arrest has pointed finger at cops since no drug was seized from those arrested students. Although police has claimed that the youths were found in very objectionable state and they were fully drunk while partying.

According to New York Police Department source, Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was discovered dead Sunday at his New York City apartment in Manhattan.

MEXICO Town –  Mexico's military has taken productive command of one particular of the nation's largest seaports as part of an hard work to bring drug-cartel exercise under control in the western state of Michoacan.