Opium addiction spread, and its victims included Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Around 1000 AD, Persian physician Avicenna developed standard opium doses the size of chickpeas.

A 41-year-old Ashdod resident was arrested in Netanya on Wednesday on suspicion of smuggling opium inside Persian lemons into Israel from Iran, Army Radio reported.

When finished, the Trans-Iranian will jog south 865 miles through the middle of the country it serves, joining the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. U. S. and German firms began the line in 1927 ...

Opium is a white, milky substance that, after extracted from the Opium Poppy, can be used to produce morphine, ... Persian, Arabic, Indian, and Chinese. Maxal Tamor/Shutterstock.com.

AT the Eighteenth Session of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium, held in May 1934, the American representative, Mr. Stuart J. Fuller, drew attention to the dangerous situation which ...

The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.