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 ...

I WISH I had seen those days, those wonderful hundred days when the armies of America and Britain with its Dominions and the French stormed on to their goal, the battle of August 8 which Ludendorff ...

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 ...

Around 2 a.m. on Monday, December 6, 1875, a "posse of police" led by Captain William Douglass descended on 609 Dupont Street in San Francisco. The cops arrested Fannie Whitmore, Cora Martinez, James ...

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 ...

The United States saw a record number of drug overdose deaths in 2019, and figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest this year may be even worse. Fatal overdoses have risen ...

SARAB, Afghanistan (AP) — 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 — ...

Chronicle Book Review: Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs by P.E. Caquet (2022, Reaktion Books, 400 pp., $35.00 HB) The history of drug prohibition is increasingly well-trodden ...

When NATO leaders meet for their summit in Riga at the end of this month, there will be a ghost at the feast: Afghanistan's opium. Afghanistan is in danger of falling back into the hands of terrorists ...