6, 2010 If you think Viagra and other erectile drugs are passport to satisfying sexual encounters, think again.

Dr Mahinder Watsa warns you of their side-effects It's a growing phenomenon to find all health related issues being prescribed a pill. Common cold, a mild headache, to generally feeling down and out, everything comes with a pill to snap you out of it. Sex then, is no exception. Increasingly, we find young men, with no apparent major sexual problem, taking to drugs meant to... Drug Abuse Articles By Date PARENTING

It is all about parenting

August 21, 2013 | Mumbai Mirror Teenagers are most vulnerable to negative influences and especially to a vice like drug addiction, this is when parents need to intervene, here is how... Adolescence is an age bracket when they are predominantly appalled at life. The reasons are many from hormones running wild, to the faintest idea of the fast approaching realities of this stage. Suddenly they start hating everything, Once adolescencthood strikes, they turn vulnerable to bad influences and habits like those of drugs and other addictions. Ads by Google

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Maharashtra has highest no of registered drug addicts

March 10, 2010 | Kartikeya , TNN MUMBAI: Get a fix on this: Over the last three years, Maharashtra has had the largest number of people registering for drugs deaddiction in the country. Records with the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment show that 43,180 persons have checked in for deaddiction treatment in Maharashtra since 2007, which is higher than any other state. The numbers (which are a fraction of the actual number of drug users or addicts) also point to a worrying trend: drug abuse... PUNE

Slimming pills are the new danger drug

February 1, 2004 | TNN MUMBAI: January 27, 12.30 am. The dimly-lit alley behind a five-star hotel in Colaba is bustling with business. Sheekh kababs and baida roti disappear as soon as they are lifted off the hot flames. Cars parked along the kerb have customers tucking into the meal. A short distance away, a car stops before a narrow lane. A thin, lanky lad jumps out and disappears into the lane. Minutes later, he is back, casually swinging a small, brown packet into the back seat. PARENTING

Why some teens begin smoking

August 20, 2013 | ANI Researchers have discovered a number of previously unknown networks in the brain, which go a long way towards explaining why some teenagers are more vulnerable to start trying out drugs and alcohol "while others don't. The largest imaging study of the human brain ever conducted involved 1,896 14-year-olds. Robert Whelan and Hugh Garavan of the University of Vermont , along with a large group of international colleagues, report that differences in these networks provide strong evidence... PATNA

Patna's kids: Sniffing out a solution to stress?

August 11, 2013 | Frank Krishner , TNN PATNA: Saurabh Kumar, teaching at a lesser-known 'English-medium' private school in the city, noticed three students, aged about 14, were often bleary eyed and drowsy. The three boys would very often hold big handkerchiefs to their noses. The boys would sit at the back, bow down from time to time, hold the hankie to their noses and take a deep breath. What Saurabh didn't suspect was that the three students were inhaling a correction fluid or 'whitener', commonly found in...