Older people taking a medicine used to treat anxiety and insomnia – nitrazepam – as well as those on antidepressants, are twice as likely to suffer postoperative delirium after hip and knee surgery, a new Australian study has found.
The psychotropic drug, nitrazepam, has now become an easily accessible and all-pervasive medicinal product for misuse in the eastern and northern border districts of Kerala, thanks to the indifferent attitude and poor enforcement activities of the drug control officials in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
The Delhi zonal unit of the NCB said it detained Amit Kumar in this connection, and added that two of his companies -- Zatak Softech and Farma Glow -- were under the scanner for allegedly running the illicit drugs trafficking racket.
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