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 ...

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.

CHINESE immigrants and well-to-do Manhattan socialites lie together in drug-induced stupor – victims of the epidemic of opium addiction that spread across America in the late 19th century. Ra… ...

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.

Afghanistan's opium problem 20 photos. ZHARI, Afghanistan -- It's the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan - the country's intractable opium cultivation.This year, many Afghan ...

Officers conducted a search warrant at a large poppy plant grow operation in Catawba County, N.C., on May 23. (Video: WSOC) By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. Cody Xiong cracked open his door, saw the ...

Despite the abundance of evidence for opium use in Crete, Cyprus, Spain, Egypt, and ancient Sumer, scholars have debated whether or not there was much opium trade in the Levant.

Working with museum collections, I am often reminded that the names we attach to objects can reflect powerful social and political forces. A case in point is the small instrument of ancient Asian ...

The production of opium increased sharply in Myanmar, rising to a nine-year high, according to the UN. It touched nearly 795 metric tonnes in 2022, nearly double the production in 2021 - 423 ...

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.