Drug
7 ‘teen gang members’ held in city
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested seven members of a teen gang along with drugs and sharp weapons from Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area of the capital.
Home Minister outlines strategy against drugs
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said the drug addicts will not get government jobs since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina strictly directed that no one can enter government service without dope test.
8 including foreigners held for ‘drug dealing’ in Rajshahi
Police in a drive arrested eight people, including two foreigners, from Panchaboti in the city on Tuesday night on charges of buying and selling drugs.
Mexican president says he backed release of drug kingpin's son to save lives
Mexico City, Oct. 19 (Xinhua/UNB) -- Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday said that he supported the decision to back off from an attempt to capture a son of imprisoned kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, to prevent the loss of lives.
Philippine police chief resigns amid drug allegations
Manila, OCT 14 Ecuador (AP/UNB) — The Philippine national police chief resigned on Monday after he faced allegations in a Senate hearing that he intervened as a provincial police chief in 2013 to prevent his officers from being prosecuted for allegedly selling a huge quantity of illegal drugs they had seized.
‘Drug dealer’ killed in Kushtia ‘shootout’
Kushtia, Sept 13 (UNB) – A suspected drug dealer was killed in an alleged gunfight among police and two groups of ‘drug peddlers’ at Mollateghoria Kanalpara in Sadar upazila on early Friday.
FDA approves TB pill that cures more hard-to-treat patients
Trenton, Aug 15 (AP/UNB) — U.S. regulators Wednesday approved a new tuberculosis medicine that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases, a worsening problem in many poor countries.
Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths
New York , Aug 7(AP/UNB) — Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades.
FDA says Novartis withheld data problem before drug approval
Trenton, Aug 7 (AP/UNB) — U.S. regulators want to know why Novartis didn't disclose a problem with testing data until after the Swiss drugmaker's $2.1 million gene therapy was approved.
3 companies pay California $70 million for delaying drugs
Sacramento, Jul 30 (AP/UNB) — Three pharmaceutical companies collectively are agreeing to pay California nearly $70 million to settle allegations that they delayed drugs to keep prices high, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday.