China is currently the primary source of the precursor chemicals needed to manufacture ... fentanyl are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and ...

Unlike opium, nitazenes and other synthetic opioids can be produced anywhere in the world using precursor chemicals that are often uncontrolled.

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

China and the U.S. have taken steps to tighten the transfer of these chemicals. However, the illegal fentanyl pipeline has switched from direct export into the U.S. to Mexico, where fentanyl is ...

There had been a "long-standing" theory the jugs had been containers for opium and a new technique was used detect a plant compound related to it. It is the first chemical evidence of the opium ...