NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Opium nearly smoked out China, made Britain acquire tainted wealth, laid the foundation of the fortunes of many a notorious trading house, and made several early 19th-century ...

Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World by John H. Halpern and David Blistein Hachette Books, 2019 ($29) Humanity's complicated relationship with the opium poppy dates back to our ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy. Over ...

In 1971, President Nixon declared drugs were “public enemy No. 1 ” and launched an aggressive policy known as the War on Drugs. Billions of dollars and decades later, Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy argues that ...

It is believed that mankind has been utilizing opium poppies for recreational and medicinal uses dating as far back as 7,000 B.C., according to a new book, "Opium: How An Ancient Flower Shaped And ...

Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium, Lucy Inglis, Pegasus Books, February 2019, 464 pages. Opioid drugs—including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioids—were responsible for nearly 50,000 ...

Kabul's opium throne has shifted east. The Taliban's 2022 ban on poppy farming in Afghanistan has driven cultivation across the border, with neighbouring Pakistan overtaking it as the world's new ...

"And now my beauties, something with poison in it I think, with poison in it, but attractive to the eye and soothing to the smell . . . poppies, poppies, poppies will put them to sleep." —The Wicked ...

BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...

Farms in India have reached out to the authorities after repeatedly being attacked by opium-addicted parrots. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the ...