The Drug Enforcement Administration says 93 percent of heroin analyzed by the agency in 2015 came from Mexico, more than double the amount from five years before. The Mexican army gave NPR reporters a ...

poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

Opium poppy. A plant of the white subspecies in natural ... with the discovery of morphine in 1804 (used medically from the 1830s and popular among the aristocracy until the Belle Époque) and the ...