The overall value of the Myanmar opiate economy, based on U.N. estimates, ranges between $660 million and $2 billion, depending on how much was sold locally, and how much of the raw opium was ...

Schedule II substances include various forms of opium, such as raw opium, poppy straw, opium extracts, powdered opium, granulated opium, opium tincture, opium fluid extracts and opium straw ...

Despite the increase, the cultivation of opium poppies – the source of the raw material for much of the world’s heroin – ...