In this episode of India Positive, we bring you the stories of school children, who made world record by scaling Mount Everest. Also story from Punjab - a teachers efforts to steer students away from a life of drugs and stories from across the country. ...
09:59 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Punjab, the land of plenty. The state today is faced with an enemy within - drugs. And it's most lethal attack has been on one of the holiest cities for the Sikhs - Amritsar. ...
09:50 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Amritsar: Punjab, the land of plenty. The state today is faced with an enemy within - drugs. And it's most lethal attack has been on one of the holiest cities for the Sikhs - Amritsar. Barely eight kilometres from the Golden Temple is Makboolpura infamously known as the village of the drug widows. It is here that Master Ajit Singh started this school in 1990. He is a government school...
08:59 AM, Jun 06, 2013
The heart-rending story of recovered child drug addicts denied school admission because of their past. ...
01:13 AM, May 27, 2013
Jerusalem: Facebook and other social networking sites may affect your mental health by causing psychotic episodes and delusions, researchers warn. As Internet access becomes increasingly widespread, so do related psychopathologies such as Internet addiction and delusions related to the technology and to virtual relationships, according to the study. Computer communications such as Facebook and chat groups are an important part of this story, said Dr Uri Nitzan of Tel Aviv...
07:20 PM, May 05, 2013
Hollywood actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt of the 'Inception' fame, turns director with a racy satire titled Don Jon's Addiction, about a young man addicted to internet pornography. The film stars the actor himself opposite Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore. Rajeev Masand spoke to Joseph Gordon-Levitt about the film, which will be released in India later this year. ...
06:10 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Internet addicts, beware! Using the web for long hours can result in withdrawal symptoms similar to the 'comedown' experienced by drug users, according to a new study. ...
03:55 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The story of Vijay Simha and his long drawn battle with addiction and substance abuse is not only true but hard to believe. He says ...
05:28 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Dehradun: A young man admitted to a de-addiction centre in Dehradun was found dead in mysterious circumstances. The dead youngsters identified as Rajesh was admitted to the de-addiction centre in Dehraduns Arya nagar just 5 days ago. Rajeshs family claims that the employees of the de-addiction centre had beaten him mercilessly following which he died. His family pointed to the injury marks on his body as a proof of their...
11:39 AM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: A day after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi sparked a row over his statement about drug addiction among the youth in Punjab, his party on Friday backed his claims and launched an attack on the state government for not taking steps to solve the problem. Hitting out at the Punjab government, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said, "Akali government should apologise for the remarks they made yesterday, and they...
05:49 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Hyderabad: When 10-year-old Mohd. Umar first inhaled a whitener fluid off a piece of paper in the company of his friends, little did he know what he was getting into. Same is the case with nine-year-old Sadiq and 20-year-old Syed Fasi. The trio are among hundreds of such boys addicted to whiteners in the Old City. Whitener is a white fluid containing organic solvents, used to erase errors in handwritten...
01:27 PM, Jul 25, 2012
The last episode of TV show 'Satyamev Jayate' focussed on the issue of alcoholism. Tonight at 10 PM CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, does it need an Aamir Khan to wake us up to the dangers of growing alcohol abuse?
01:02 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi's Rekha Jhingan has been fighting the menace of drug abuse for the past 20 years after her own athlete husband took to drugs in 1991 and she didn't have many options then to help him get rid of the habit. Rekha Jhingan's day begins in the national capital's Hanuman Mandir. While many go there to seek divine intervention, she goes there to lend a friendly hand to...
09:18 AM, May 16, 2012
Srinagar: The police in Jammu and Kashmir, mostly in the news for all the wrong reasons, are in the limelight this time. They have set up a drug de-addiction centre in the valley to help the youth. Faisal (name changed) says, "My friends gave me the pills... first, they gave me one tablet... I got addicted and then started to get used to drugs... When I tried to give up,...
09:34 AM, Feb 03, 2012
I was alone, I took a ride I didnt know what I would find there Another road where maybe I could see another kind of mind there When Paul McCartney penned these lyrics for The Beatles Got to Get You Into My Life, he had just been introduced to marijuana. It is not known if these lines were on Prasads lips as he took a ride to Saidapet recently, desperately...
09:53 AM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: Michael Jackson's physician, Doctor Conrad Murray on Tuesday was sentenced to four years in jail. Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for having given Jackson an overdose of the anesthetic propofol on the June 25, 2009 to help him fight chronic insomnia. The Prosecutors also want Murray to pay more than $100 million to compensate the Jackson family for the star's loss of earnings from his comeback...
11:44 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Michael Jackson's physician, Doctor Conrad Murray will be sentenced on Tuesday. Murray is facing up to four years of imprisonment. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for having given Jackson an overdose of the anesthetic propofol on the June 25, 2009 to help him fight chronic insomnia. The Prosecutors, have asked for the maximum jail term for Dr Murray. They also want Murray to pay more than...
07:10 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Los Angeles: Prosecutors who depicted Michael Jackson's doctor as remorseless for the superstar's death urged a judge Wednesday to sentence him to four years in prison, while a defense lawyer said Dr Conrad Murray is in a prison of self-punishment and should receive probation. The opposing sentencing memos were filed in advance of Dr Conrad Murray's sentencing hearing Tuesday. He has been in jail since he was convicted November 7...
12:54 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: Twenty-year-old Alisha Jose, a bright college student from a middle-class family in Delhi, was coaxed to try a "pill" at a party by her friends around two years ago. Little did she know that it would be her first step towards ruin. According to sources in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), a steep increase in party drugs consumption has been noticed in metros like Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore,...
12:08 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Washington: Addiction isn't just about willpower. It's a chronic brain disease, says a new definition aimed at helping families and their doctors better understand the challenges of treating it. "Addiction is about a lot more than people behaving badly," says Dr Michael M Miller of the American Society for Addiction Medicine. That's true whether it involves drugs and alcohol or gambling and compulsive eating, the doctors group said Monday. And...
11:00 AM, Aug 17, 2011
