"cough-syrups"

Hyderabad Task Force and SR Nagar police arrested a suspected medicine supplier and a consumer and seized habit-forming medicines and cough syrups worth Rs 4.80 lakh. Police said the pharmacy worker allegedly sold the medicines without prescriptions for illegal profit.

The common reflex is to reach for cough syrup, but those with diabetes have good reason to pay close attention to ingredients

Officials raided the building located in Gauripada area on October 21 on a tip-off and seized the illegal stock of cough syrups from a room below the staircase, as per an official release

The spurious cough syrups made with phensedyl, which is addictive, were smuggled to Bangladesh, they said.

The flat occupant, identified as Simab Ismail Sheikh (25), did not possess a license to stock and sell the medicines, the official said.

It is imperative that drug control organisations are constantly reinforced to act on a real-time basis to intercept defaulters

The WHO said the products, manufactured by Marion Biotech, were "substandard" and that the firm had failed to provide guarantees about their safety, the BBC reported.

Hyderabad: Noticing a spike in demand for habit-forming drugs in the city and in the wake of an intense crackdown on drug cartels dealing in marijuana and banned tobacco products in the State, the police along with the Drug Control Administration (DCA) are now focusing on stricter enforcement of drug laws. In recent days, the […]