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 ...

In the early hours of September 14, 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of ...

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 ...

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 ...

But heroin, which required further chemical processing, was a different matter and before the end of World War II Japan was the leading producer of narcotic drugs in the world. Mikinosuke Miyajima ...