The Canadian province of British Columbia (B.C.) has been fighting against a deadly drug overdose crisis that killed about 800 people in 2016, according to local authorities.
It is likely to be at least 10 years before any new generation of antidepressants comes to market, despite evidence that depression and anxiety rates are increasing across the world, specialists said on Wednesday.
A drug that could "melt away" cancer cells has been approved for human use in Australia.
A total of 652 people have been arrested in Cambodia for drug-related crimes in the first week of the government's anti-drug campaign, which officials say aims to suppress drug trafficking while boosting rehabilitation services for drug users, local media reported on Monday.
Myanmar Health Ministry has pledged to improve the coverage of its prevention services across the country against HIV next year, sources with the ministry said Monday.
Reuters submitted five questions to the Presidential Communications Office of Rodrigo Duterte for the news agency's investigation into police killings of drug suspects. The questions and replies are reproduced here in full, edited only for spelling and punctuation:
The man who sparked outrage last year by hiking the price of a life-saving drug may have met his match in some Australian schoolboys.
China supports Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign against drugs and is willing to strengthen cooperation with the Philippines in this area, a spokesperson said Friday.
Some drug users seeking to avoid becoming a bloody statistic in Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on narcotics, are going into a rehabilitation programme that teaches them how to make coffins.
Myanmar is drafting a new policy for controlling drug as part of its efforts to solve drug problem in addition to crime suppression, official media reported Sunday.
President Rodrigo Duterte has unleashed a series of expletives against the European Union after its parliament called on the Philippine government to "put an end" to the killings of drug suspects.
The death toll from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody anti-crime crusade has passed the 2,400 mark in the less than three months since he took office, police figures showed on Sunday (Sept 4).
The Philippine government is not ruling out other possible groups besides Abu Sayyaf, which could be behind a deadly explosion in southern city of Davao, a senior government official said Sunday.
The Philippine government has been "successful" in its first phase on the war against illegal drugs, a senior government official said on Thursday.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday (Aug 29) promised rewards running to tens of thousands of dollars for information leading to the capture of police officers protecting drug syndicates and warned corrupt officials they would face "a day of reckoning".
Indonesian investigators were probing armed forces personnel allegedly receiving funds from drug business, Indonesian Military Commander General Gatot Nurmantyo disclosed here on Monday.
Philippine officials said yesterday that the government would build new jails to address severe congestion made worse by President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, describing conditions as "inhumane" and "unacceptable".
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