Researchers Find Many Small Metal Spoons With Traces of Opium, Say Barbarian Warriors Used Stimulants Before Battle ...

Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one reference to “the ...

The idiot-smile and death-like stupor of the opium debauchee has something far more awful to ... others laughing and talking under the effects of a pipe; while the couches around are filled with their ...

BANGKOK--There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

PRESENTER:'Shocked by the social effects of the opium trade, 'and by its drain on their silver supply, 'the emperor and his advisors debated what to do. PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:'The emperor spent time ...

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The agency says that increased prices for opium and heroin in Afghanistan could have an impact on purity and prices in Europe in the future. So far, however, no such effects have been seen ...