Since ancient times, poppies have been used for a variety of purposes and given a variety of symbolic meanings. Red and white ...

House Bill 46, which awaits Gov. Greg Abbott’s approval, would include more patients with chronic pain and allow for ...

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

Tim MacGabhann spent more than a decade in South America as a journalist and junkie. Now, he’s released a memoir of those ...

While most of these treatments are creams or gels, there are also bug bite patches on the market. These round dots look like pimple patches, but they promise to soothe the irritation caused by a ...

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

Afghanistan is witnessing a surge in opium prices and the ‘massive profits’ from it are being reaped by criminal gangs, United Nations' drugs watchdog has flagged. But why are opium prices in ...

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In 1839, Lin was the Qing dynasty official who confronted the British and their illegal opium trade that pushed the substance on Chinese users; he confiscated 20,000 chests of the drug and cast ...

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 ...

Men praying on a small patch of grass last year in Shagai, in Afghanistan’s Bakwa District. The district became a booming hub of production and trade for opium, heroin and methamphetamines.