U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia have seized nearly 300 pounds of dried opium poppy pods from ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

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 ...

But the soldiers stomping through small vegetable gardens in remote villages were after opium poppies. Finding a few poppies, in patches no bigger than a hopscotch area, they went to work with ...

The opium trade funnels upwards of $2 billion annually ... OLD WOMAN: [subtitles] I am begging you to leave those two patches for me, for my son, for God's sake! God knows I have taken money ...

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 ...

In the mid-19th century, the United Kingdom and other Western powers wreaked havoc across China by flooding its major cities with highly addictive opium. By 1840 some 10 million Chinese were ...

For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed millions of lives and ravaged a great nation. China’s history of being blighted by drugs can provide the U.S. with insights ...