The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Christian Church Medical College in Kolenchery, Kerala got slammed by a student organisation for seeking urine samples of its students to check for drug abuse. In a circular issued by Dean KK Diwakar, on January 17 said that students would be selected randomly and subjected to urine test.[Read More…]
Tag: Drug abuse
Instagram’s new feature extends help to struggle drug abuse
Facebook-owned Instagram is rolling out a new “prompt feature” that would pop-up if users try to find substance abuse related recovery and treatment services or look to buy drugs illegally on the platform using certain hashtags such as “opioid”, the media has reported. “Instagram says people are using hashtags to[Read More…]
India’s War on Drugs – The nation is ‘high’, but do we care?
This International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, let’s take out some time to analyse our country’s “War on Drugs”. While, many of us are too hooked on to America’s War on Drugs, it is about time we introspect what is going on in our own country! It is[Read More…]
A socially conscious actor and his fight against addiction
While we have several examples of people losing their lives due to drugs and alcohol addiction in the glamour industry, here is someone from the same society, setting a whole new example. Bengali film actor-turned-social activist Bobby Chakraborty’s main aim is to keep young boys and girls off addiction. Drug[Read More…]