The opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year has become a source of political leverage that Beijing won’t ...

War on Drugs Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America's First Drug War San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as ...

nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)Back then, it was a bearish market. Afghanistan provided 75% of the world’s opium and its derivative, heroin. A kilo of sticky, greenish black opium sold for only $30.

Opium Falls but Synthetics Are on the Rise A ban on opium in Afghanistan has forced traffickers to dip into stockpiles to move heroin, but new synthetic opiates are emerging. The cultivation of opium, ...

But the British Empire wasn’t ready to give up its lucrative drug operation. Because now, opium sales were responsible for 15 to 20% of the British Empire’s entire annual revenue.

BANGKOK (AP) — U.N. experts say 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, but warn there ...

Drugs, Scams and Sin: Myanmar’s War Has Made It the Global Crime Capital The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement ...

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 ...