Synthetic drugs are rapidly transforming the global drug trade, fuelling an escalating public health crisis, according to the ...

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

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second ... "Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced," he said. "Residents who can't live in their villages and fled ...