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

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

The country's opiate economy — including the value of domestic consumption as well as exports abroad — is estimated to be ...

Millions of Chinese were addicted to opium in those days. “By focusing on an old-school drug like opium, I thought I would gain the empathy of readers more readily,” Monma said. “A focus on ...

A man was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj for illegally cultivating opium poppy on rented land, with police seizing plants and pods worth an estimated Rs 1.5 crore, officials said on Tuesday.

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

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year-old was a rice farmer when the junta seized power in a 2021 coup, adding ...