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The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a drug cartel that was illegally manufacturing Ephedrine, a controlled substance. The drug, otherwise used to treat respiratory illnesses, is illegally used to manufacture party drugs.

Melatonin Drug is popularly known as a sleep enhancer. It is a natural substance secreted by the pineal gland, a pea-sized structure found deep within the brain. Its primary role is to regulate the sleep wake cycle.

Specialty drug maker Warner Chilcott Ltd. announced Monday that it acquired Procter & Gamble Co.'s prescription-drug business for $3.1 billion.
Six banks, led by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. and including Credit Suisse Group AG, Citigroup Inc.

Drug firm Dr Reddy's Laboratories on Wednesday announced the launch of Finrid, a drug used in the treatment of chronic pain, in India.

Scattered around the Web, mostly at sites dealing with drug addiction (here and here, for example), is a "Cocaine Timeline" that includes this 1912 milestone: "U.S. government reports 5,000 cocaine-related fatalities in one year." The number seems awfully high, given that the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) counted about 4,000 "drug misuse deaths" involving cocaine in 2004, when the U.S. population was about 294 million, three times what it was in 1912.

The career of Jaguars receiver Matt Jones took another damaging turn Monday when he was booked into the Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville, Ark., for violating terms of the plea deal that placed him in a drug intervention program.

Buju Banton has been arrested on drug conspiracy charges. The Jamaican reggae star attempted to buy at least 20-kilos of cocaine from an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent. He is currently being held in federal prison in Miami.

Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, blamed for thousands of deaths in a drug war, has made it onto the Forbes Magazine list of the world's richest people with an estimated $1 billion fortune.Guzman, who is just 5 feet tall (1.55 metres), escaped from prison in 2001 to set off a wave of killings across Mexico in an attempt to dominate the country's highly lucrative drug trade into the United States.