Alexander the Great’s army may have introduced Anatolian opium into Iran, a history implicit in the linguistic connections between Greek opion, Persian afyun and Indian afeem. Mercantile networks ...

The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per kilogram in 2024, a tenfold increase compared to two years prior, ...

TOP on the list of concerns raised by the recent arrest of former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte by the International Criminal ...

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

During the Prohibition era (1920-33), when alcohol was banned in the United States, the American Mafia, along with other ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...

I was a guest, as I frequently am, this morning on Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson’s Morning Answer show on AM 560 in Chicago, and the topic of conversation was an uncomfortable one for conservatives in ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

By citing fentanyl as the reason, the US government announced in late February that it would hit goods from China with a new ...

Jalandhar: The Subhanpur police have arrested a man with 150 opium plants at the Lakkhan Ke Padde village in Kapurthala after ...