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 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 ...

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

On the contrary, Vermont opium is condemned as being merely an extract ... The main features of this process are grinding and pressure, with use of some alcohol to extract the morphine.

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 ...