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
Chicago: Mouse ears in the mud. It seemed a fitting end to the 20th anniversary of Lollapalooza, the three-day music festival that started under warm, sunny skies but ended on Sunday night in a rainy dance party. The Canadian progressive dance music artist deadmau5 -- pronounced like "dead mouse" -- was one of two headliners, along with the Foo Fighters, to close out of the event. Tens of thousands of...
11:34 AM, Aug 08, 2011
New Delhi: New, stronger pictorial warnings will finally appear on tobacco products this December but cigarette packs won't have the harsher warning that Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad himself had publicised in March 2010. Those will only go on chewable tobacco products. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "Of 35 per cent of Indian adults, only 9 per cent are using tobacco and beedi. Whereas 26 per cent are using...
08:22 AM, May 31, 2011
Los Angeles: Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse is heading back to rehab, her spokeswoman said on Friday. Winehouse, 27, ironically best known for her 2006 hit 'Rehab', checked herself in to a UK clinic on Wednesday prior to playing several summer dates in Europe. "Amy has embarked on a treatment program at the Priory Clinic," her publicist Tracey Miller said in a statement. "She wants to be ready for performances...
08:23 PM, May 29, 2011
London: A 19-year-old girl in the US is getting treatment for her addiction of eating soaps and detergent powders. Tempestt Henderson, from Florida, eats up to five bars of soap a week and washing powder as well, the Daily Mail reported here. According to doctors, the toxic compulsion is a rare medical condition, PICA, which causes an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive. People suffering form PICA have been...
11:36 AM, Feb 08, 2011
London: A vaccine that helps alcoholics kick the habit by triggering a terrible hangover is undergoing animal trials. The vaccine would increase nausea, accelerate heartbeats, induce sweating and a general feeling of unease. Chilean researchers have already successfully tested the vaccine on rats who were dependent on alcohol and got them to halve their consumption. They will conduct further animal tests this year before launching human trials in 2012, said...
09:17 PM, Jan 09, 2011
New York: Dan Nainan can't trust himself to work at his computer without clicking on distractions, so he uses an Internet-blocking program to shut down his Web access twice a day. "I'm sorry, but try as I might, I could never, ever do this on my own," said the New York City comedian who's struggling to finish a book. "I wish I could, but I just don't have the discipline."...
12:36 PM, Dec 30, 2010
Toronto: Canada is the most web-addicted nation on the planet. Canadians spend more time on the web and its offshoots - Facebook, YouTube and Twitter - than people anywhere else in the world. They are neck and neck with Indians for the number of Facebook accounts, says a report. According to comScore, the leading online measurement service, Canadian online users log in more than 2,500 minutes a month, followed by...
12:55 PM, Dec 29, 2010
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