Opium is a highly addictive drug. It’s made from juice extracted from the unripe seed pods of opium poppy plants (the scientific name is Papaver somniferum). Opium is used to make a class of drugs ...

The Taliban — which banned poppy cultivation when it ruled Afghanistan — now appears to wield significant control over the war-torn country’s heroin production line, providing insurgents with billions ...

Sunday, April 6, 2008, Modesto Police Officers discovered a large poppy cultivation being grown in the backyard of a family residence inthe 600 block of Paradise Ave. Poppy plants are used in the ...

JUQUILA YUCUCANI (Reuters) - In the mountains of Mexico's tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, ...

Guatemalan security forces eradicate opium poppies in a village near Tajumulco, Guatemala, March 20, 2024. The boom in supply and use of the synthetic opioid fentanyl has devastated the trade in opium ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: photomi7ch via Alamy Poppy seeds are known to cause false positives on drug tests; in one ...

It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom Seinfeld. But for some it has been a tragedy. People have died after drinking tea brewed from unwashed ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Rebuffing months of U.S. pressure, Afghan President Hamid Karzai decided against a Colombia-style program to spray this country's heroin-producing poppies after the Cabinet ...

For a long time, Kathmandu was known as a drug paradise, but mainly for ‘soft’ narcotics like marijuana. Lately, however, raw and processed opium from India have become available – especially after ...

SAN MARCOS, Guatemala — The convoy rolled out of the military base before dawn into the mist-shrouded mountains straddling Guatemala’s border with Mexico. Its mission: destroy opium poppies used to ...