One of the oldest drugs, Salsalate, is found to be effective in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease too apart from being prescribed for Arthritis. In a new experiment conducted on mice in laboratory researchers in the US found the drug prevented building up of toxic proteins in the brain and […]

A drug has been developed to be effective in the prevention of HIV infection. It is Truvada of Kaiser Permanente. The vaccine comes after more than thirty years when the AIDS virus was first discovered. The lab has tested the vaccine on more than 600 patients for about three years […]

Drugs and civilization have grown side by side. Even in periods where drug use was frowned upon, some songwriters have found a way to sing about them even under the cover of bouncy pop sheens (“Got To Get You Into My Life”). At very least, the feelings of being high […]

Drug addiction illness is complex and intense too. Sometimes it goes up to uncontrollable drug craving, but it starts from just voluntary act of taking drugs. Addiction is a disease of brain and biologically it is said to affect several brain circuits including learning and memory, reward and motivation, and […]

Many parents are savvy to the “peer pressure” and the “just say no to drugs” talk. As we know, it’s a very worthwhile conversation to have, and often. Let’s face it. Seriously though, many parents are focusing the discussion on drugs which we typically associate with danger like marijuana, ecstasy, […]

Top Tanzanian celebrities including singer Khalid Mohammed alias TID, former Miss Tanzania Wema Sepetu, Babuu wa Kitaa and Dogo Hamidu have been summoned and questioned at the central police station over suspects of drug trafficking and drug abuse. The country has recently intensified crackdown on anti-narcotics trade. The Ministry of […]