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 ...

The most dangerous illicit drug ever concocted, fentanyl, has turned entire blocks of America’s major cities into the 21st-century equivalent of open-air opium dens — or war zones.

In 1875, having found that many white men and women patronized the local "opium dens," the San Francisco Board of Supervisors attempted to check the "growing evil." To that end, they imposed hefty ...

CLOSING AN OPIUM DEN.; A CHINESE JOINT IN MULBERRY-STREET ENTERED BY THE POLICE. Share full article. July 25, 1886. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Ten years later, his name hit the newspapers again when Deadwood police raided five Chinese opium dens, arresting 17 people from China and two white men, while confiscating eight pounds of opium ...

The Forbes House Museum in Milton is currently exhibiting "Opium: the Business of Addiction" detailing the South Shore's ties to China's opium crisis.

The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory—and Unsavory—History Venture into the Montana eatery, once a gambling den and opium repository, that still draws a crowd ...