Punjab: Navjot Singh Sidhu backs MP’s demand to legalise cultivation and sale of opium

He claimed opium was better than heroin.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 01, 2018 · 01:34 pm

A silent movement for the legalisation of cannabis is spreading across India

The Great Legalisation Movement has two agendas: quietly provide cannabis oil to cancer patients, and press the government to lift the ban on using marijuana.

Avantika Mehta

· Sep 03, 2018 · 11:30 am

Narcotics are smuggled into Goa as it is a tourist state, there is no drug mafia: Manohar Parrikar

State minister Sudin Dhavalikar submitted the reply on behalf of the chief minister in the Assembly after MLAs expressed concern over the problem.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 21, 2018 · 04:15 pm

Should medical marijuana be legalised in India? Palliative care doctors are divided

Doctors want the government to improve access to pain-relieving opioids first.

Priyanka Vora

· Aug 04, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Prince’s death from fentanyl is only the tip of the global overdose iceberg

The musician died of an accidental overdose. Accidents are common when it comes to fentanyl, a powerful pain killer 100 times stronger than morphine.

Julaine Allan, The Conversation

· Jun 05, 2016 · 11:30 pm

Soviet-era treatment could be the new weapon in the war against antibiotic resistance

The virus that could cure antibiotic resistant infections.

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Ville Friman, The Conversation

· Apr 24, 2016 · 11:30 pm

How India tackles adverse drug reactions – by ignoring data

Ten per cent of all medicines popped worldwide are taken in India. Yet it accounts for just 2% of globally occurring side effects of medicines.

Charu Bahri, IndiaSpend.com

· Feb 08, 2016 · 09:30 pm

India's generic drug makers likely to be major talking point during Modi's US visit

The US is expressing its displeasure over India's handling of patent matters on the eve of the Indian PM's visit.

Nayantara Narayanan

· Sep 25, 2014 · 12:30 pm