When the khaki-colored landscapes of Afghanistan are transformed by a patchwork of pink, white and purple each spring, farmers rejoice. Their cash crop of poppies is ready for harvesting. Opium ...

BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world's biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...

Three people have been arrested after an investigation by the Tauranga Crime Investigation Branch targeting the* *importation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where there's smoke: a 19th-century engraving of opium addicts - Archive Collection / Alamy Stock Photo There are rumours that ...

BANGKOK — The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication efforts have dropped ...

Bronze Age humans living in the Levant may have getting high on psychoactive drugs, according to a new study that found traces of opium in 3,500-year-old ceramic vessels from Tel Yehud, a Canaanite ...

The drugs - sent from the UK and India - were intercepted in Auckland between 1 June and 19 July.

The United States is losing the New Opium War with China. Leaders in Washington, D.C. appear unwilling to acknowledge that a fight even exists. A crisis of addiction in China in the 19th century, ...

As the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, the Biden administration must deal with a troubling new reality: the Taliban, which now controls the country, is deeply dependent on the illegal drug trade, U.N ...

Part 1. Opium in antiquity. The mysterious origins of the opium poppy ; Papyruses and poppies ; A journey around the Mediterranean. Part 2. Opium and the birth of modern medicine. Classic cures, ...

Burial pits in Tel Yehud, Israel, contained pottery vessels with remnants of opium, experts say, in the world’s oldest evidence of drug use. Photo from Assaf Peretz and the Israel Antiquities ...

Three days after Orlando police first responded to the Stella West Apartments for a child’s shooting death, News 6 continues to push for answers about what happened Read full article: The Florida ...