Drug busts on the Mexican border are nothing new. At the El Paso / Juarez crossing in 1910, the feds seized a huge shipment of Texas-bound opium, at least some of which was believed to be headed to ...

Opium poppies can provide useful pharmaceuticals without making the addictive compounds in heroin and opium, an international team of scientists has shown. An Australian and German team led by Dr ...

Where does opium come from? The opium poppy grows best in warm, dry climates. Most opium is grown in a long, narrow stretch of mountains in central Asia, an area that starts in Turkey and moves east ...

A DELUGE of sticky brown resin threatens to submerge the new Afghan state. According to figures released on November 18th by the UN's counter-narcotics agency (UNODC), Afghanistan has seen a huge rise ...