Heroin was the one drug Sam Smith would never try. A former straight-A student who began smoking pot and drinking in 11th grade, Smith dropped out of college due to drug use and moved into a ...

The United States has been battling an opioid crisis for decades, marked by three distinct waves of rising overdose deaths.

The condemnation of the French Naval Ensign Ullmo to life imprisonment this week on the charge of treason, despite his defense that he was not responsible, owing to opium smoking, has profoundly ...

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

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...