New Delhi: One of the greatest mysteries in rock 'n' roll history came into the spotlight once again on Saturday, July 23, when the iconic, yet troubled singer Amy Winehouse died at the age of 27. She joins the league of Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison, all music legends who died at the age of 27, giving rise to the myth of 'Club 27'...
03:51 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Los Angeles: Soul singer Amy Winehouse, who died unexpectedly at age 27, received numerous tributes on Saturday from ordinary fans around the world and music luminaries ranging from Tony Bennett to producer Mark Ronson. The 'Rehab' singer whose problems with substance abuse were well-documented, died at her home in London, and while it appears she has lost her battle with drink and drugs, an official cause of death has yet...
11:59 AM, Jul 24, 2011
London: The son of the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been jailed for 16 months for going on a drink and drug-fuelled rampage at a student fees protest. Gilmour, who is 21 years old and a student at Cambridge University, was jailed over charges of violent disorder after he was filmed defacing the Cenotaph, throwing a bin at a car carrying Prince Charles and smashing a window. He has...
08:52 PM, Jul 15, 2011
Mumbai: A night of revelry turned sour for more than 300 youngsters, as the police busted a rave party held at Mount view resort Khalapur, 2 hours away from Mumbai on Sunday night. Deputy SP Nirmala Patil said, "there were various types of drugs around. The investigations are on." The police seized a sizable quantity of marijuana, hashish, and even cocaine and ecstasy. The party-goers reportedly a mix of young...
09:09 PM, Jun 27, 2011
Mumbai: Anti-narcotics unit Inspector Anil Jadhav has been arrested for attending a rave party. A rave party in the Raigad district near Mumbai was busted by the police late on Sunday night where about 300 people, including 63 girls were rounded up. Police said that most of those rounded-up were in the age-group of 20 to 25 years and a huge amount of drugs was also seized. Ten youths were...
07:33 AM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: Aslam began to smoke marijuana at the age of ten, lured into it by friends. Soon he graduated to other drugs, mostly heroin, stealing mobile phones and snatching gold necklaces from around women's necks to pay for his habit. "When I tried it, I really liked it - I had a feeling of stillness all around me," said Aslam, now 17, of his drift into drugs and peer...
01:33 PM, Jun 08, 2011
Washington: An Indian-American couple in New Jersey has pleaded guilty before a US court for selling counterfeit prescription drugs made in India, federal authorities said. The couple, 47-year-old Nita Patel and 57-year-old Harshad Patel, offered 'generic' forms of patented pharmaceutical products for sale over the internet, the source of which was an Indian company, court documents said. They face a maximum of 10 years of jail prison and a $250,000...
08:40 AM, May 17, 2011
Mexico City: A Mexican woman is believed to have become the world's first female to head a drug cartel, Prensa Latina news agency reported. Enedina Arellano Felix is considered by US anti-drug authorities to be the head of the Tijuana cartel, according to Mexican magazine Proceso. The cartel is one of the most powerful and violent in the country, with connections to several Central and South American countries. The organisation...
04:20 PM, May 03, 2011
London: Charlie Sheen's estranged wife Brooke Mueller has reportedly gone back to rehab after she refused to take a drug test last week. The former real estate agent who recently came to a custody arrangement with Sheen about their two-year-old twin sons Bob and Max, is said to have entered an undisclosed facility after she refused a drug test on Friday which she is required to do as part of...
11:06 AM, Apr 19, 2011
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03:19 PM, Apr 10, 2011
New York: A New York man has been arrested for allegedly selling illegal prescription drugs from his ice cream truck, making more than $1 million in a year, prosecutors said. Louis Scala sold ice cream to children from his "Lickity Split" truck and would allegedly make stops at prearranged spots where customers knew they could buy pills, according to the New York Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor. Scala, 40,...
02:23 PM, Mar 19, 2011
New Delhi: People people living with HIV/AIDS want to send the government a strong message. More than four lakh people on life-saving anti-retroviral drugs in India could lose access to the affordable medicines. If a proposed Free Trade Agreement with the European Union goes through. Daisy David who is living with HIV said, "Right now they have access to free ARV, they cannot afford to buy costly drugs." While annual...
08:18 AM, Mar 08, 2011
Jodhpur: In a shocking case twelve pregnant women have died at Umaid Hospital in Rajasthan's Jodhpur after being administered contaminated IV fluid. The deaths have taken place over the last 10 days. The first casualty was reported on February 13. Four pregnant women are on ventilators in a serious condition after excessive bleeding. The preliminary report into the incident indicates that it was contaminated IV fluid that led to the...
06:20 PM, Feb 24, 2011
Mumbai: The Food and Drug Administration has begun to investigate the quality of drugs purchased by Lilavati Hospital, just days after CNN-IBN exposed money-laundering at the hospital. CNN-IBN, in its report, had shown that Lilavati Hospital sourced medicines from 400 small individual medical stores, 250 of which are located in the slums of Dharavi. Prabodh Kiritilal Mehta and Rashmi Kiritilal Mehta - exposed recently by CNN-IBN - figure in a...
09:34 AM, Feb 23, 2011
Panaji: Two months before its release, Rohan Sippy's Dum Maro Dum has rattled Goa's tourism industry as initial reports about the Abhishek Bachchan-starrer suggest that the movie delves a lot into the state's narcotics mafia and sex trade. Both the contentious issues have put Goa on the international map of infamy and with Dum Maro Dum only set to reinforce the same negative image, the Travel and Tourism Association of...
05:29 PM, Feb 18, 2011
London: Hollywood heartthrob Robert Downey Jr has turned to crystal healing to repel the negative forces around him. The 45-year-old actor, who battled drug addiction since the age of eight has employed a man to carry crystals around him to help 'repent his soul' for the damage he did to his body when he was hooked to heroin and cocaine, Femalefirst reported. "This guy dressed all in white has been...
07:08 PM, Jan 30, 2011
Washington: Popular sleep drugs such as Ambien can leave even the healthiest older people groggy and prone to stumbling, falling and confusion when they wake up, US researchers reported. The drug, sold by Sanofi Aventis and other makers and known generically as zolpidem, appears to act broadly in the brain and has a numbing effect for at least half an hour after waking, the researchers reported in the Journal of...
04:15 PM, Jan 14, 2011
Washington: David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths. Nichols makes chemicals roughly similar to ecstasy and LSD that are supposed to help explain how parts of the brain function. Then he publishes the results for other scientists, hoping his work one day leads to treatments for depression...
03:41 PM, Jan 06, 2011
London: Heroin worth more than 5 million pounds has been seized by the UK Border Agency at the Port of Felixstowe, the biggest detection of the drug in UK this year. The estimated 80 kg of heroin had been shipped to UK from Asia in a single container listed as chilli powder, official sources said. Attention was drawn to the shipment by a discrepancy in the paperwork and the container...
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