Dr Yusuf Merchant, who aided the recovery of scores of addicts and spoke up against drug addiction in national and international platforms, passes away at 66 due to cardiac arrest; funeral to be held on Saturday evening
12 November,2022 08:27 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
The funeral will take place on Saturday at 1.00 pm at Bada Qabarastan, Charni Road, on the arrival of his daughter Sanskriti, who is pursuing higher studies in Toronto, Canada
11 November,2022 02:11 PM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
In the virtual presence of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman,Over 40,000 kgs of illicit drugs and narcotic substances were destroyed in over 13 centres all over India to mark the Drug Destruction Day on June 8.
10 June,2022 01:19 PM IST | Mumbai | BrandMedia
The award seems to have come with much thought as Dr. Yusuf Merchant has selflessly dedicated his life to the anti-drug movement for over three decades
01 November,2021 02:26 PM IST | Mumbai | BrandMedia
It was Dr Merchant, who got the deadly drug MCAT (Meow Meow) banned in India by filing a PIL, when no one wanted to take on the Drug Mafia even at the cost of the youth of India.
07 May,2021 12:31 PM IST | Mumbai | BrandMedia
Mumbai's main party man, Riyaaz Amlani, joins hands with top de-addiction doc, Yusuf Merchant, to get the young crowd to lift the taboo attached to mental health
06 May,2018 12:00 PM IST | Mumbai | Gitanjali Chandrasekharan
Though he was diagnosed with prostrate cancer and had a heart attack within six months, psychiatrist Yusuf Merchant continues de-addiction programme for youth at his house, even as he trains a successor
18 February,2020 07:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar MenonADVERTISEMENT
