After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy. Over ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Opium nearly smoked out China, made Britain acquire tainted wealth, laid the foundation of the fortunes of many a notorious trading house, and made several early 19th-century ...

A UK politician vying to become prime minister has admitted to smoking opium while in Iran. Conservative MP Rory Stewart, the minister for international development, told The Telegraph that the opium ...

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 has ...

Open the door to Islam Beg's house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It's just past 8 a.m. and the family of six — including a 1-year-old ...