The head of the Institute's Genetics and Plant Breeding department, Jawahar Ram Sharma, said his team had genetically converted the poppy seed, which has naturally occurring narcotic properties, into a new, non-narcotic variety.
It has properties of an non-sterioidal anti-inflammatory as well as another substance that could be classified as narcotic like the Tramadol I am giving my elder pup.
This increase was driven primarily by drug overdose deaths from the non-medical use of legal pharmaceutical drugs, particularly narcotic pain relievers.