The other flows from opium trafficking supported by the Taliban, which use the proceeds to fund attacks on Western troops. Only recently has the Afghan government seemed to take stock of the ...

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.

In China, even owning dried opium pods is a criminal offense, regardless of their intended use. Details about the child's consequences after the incident have not been disclosed by Chinese media ...

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

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 ...

He says he regrets growing the substance -- the core ingredient in heroin -- but said the income is the only thing separating him from starvation. "If anyone were in my shoes, they would likely do ...