Atlanta rapper Destroy Lonely, part of Playboi Carti’s Opium label and crew, is known for wild, physical live shows. Last ...

Drugs like opium, meth and hashish remain the Taliban's largest single source of income and have a "destabilizing and corrupting effect" in Afghanistan, U.N. officials tell CBS News.

In 2014, opium cultivation rose to record levels: more than 553,000 acres, up 7% from the year before, according to the UNODC's recently released Afghanistan Opium Survey 2014.

The cultivation of opium had been trending downward in recent years before the military took control of the government in 2021. Production estimates hit a bottom of 400 metric tons (440 tons) in 2020.

Item 1 of 5 Vessels that contained opium in the 14th century BC, when it was used by Canaanites as an offering for the dead, according to a study by the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For years, opium has been the monster too big to slay. One Afghan government after another has pledged to stamp out opium production and trafficking, only to prove unable ...

A riveting new history of opium, a lucrative and destructive flower. Amitav Ghosh’s sweeping, forcefully written ‘Smoke and Ashes’ covers centuries in the life of the plant.

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age, by Stephen R. Platt, Knopf, 592 pages, $35 Stephen R. Platt believes that the so-called Opium War of 1839–1842 was one of ...

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it but remains a ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record high this year, a United Nations survey shows, despite a decade of international efforts to curb the drug trade.