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

Humans have utilized plants in medicine for thousands of years. As a matter of fact, the Sumerians were the first to record ...

New synthetic opioids (NSOs) are one of the fastest-growing groups of new psychoactive substances around the world ...

Rajasthan Police arrested 1,393 smugglers and seized narcotics worth Rs 54.64 crore during its campaign against drug trafficking between January 3 and 31, an official said on Thursday. According to ...

While it's next to impossible to know how many opioids entered the state illegally in 2023, we do know that just under 1.7 ...

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

Researchers Find Many Small Metal Spoons With Traces of Opium, Say Barbarian Warriors Used Stimulants Before Battle ...

Assam destroys poppy plantations worth ₹27.20 crore, Chief Minister compares local cultivators to Pablo Escobar.

Opioids are a class of drugs that “derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the opium poppy plant”, according to ...

Derived from the poppy plant, the psychotropic narcotic has fascinated people for 5,000 years. For better and for worse.

In a major crackdown against the narcotics trade in the city, Pune Police seized 1.10 kilogram of opium worth Rs 29.80 ... Of the Narcotics Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act.