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 the ...
Researchers have discovered the unique genes that allow the opium poppy to make codeine and morphine, opening the door to alternate methods of producing these effective painkillers either by ...
Some of the 14th-century B.C.E. vessels found at the Tel Yehud burial site Photo by Ahmad Gharabli / AFP via Getty Images Researchers in Israel have discovered traces of opium in ceramic artifacts ...
As the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, the Biden administration must deal with a troubling new reality: the Taliban, which now controls the country, is deeply dependent on the illegal drug trade, U.N ...
“We hope this exhibition will shed new light on a period of history that’s often misunderstood or overlooked,” said Heidi Vaughan, the Forbes House Museum executive director in a statement. The ...
In the mountains of Mexico’s tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, that farmer Santiago Sánchez ...
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