The banned opium poppy crops worth around Rs 40,000 was recovered from the farm of a woman identified as Mangal Dadaso ...

Opium prices in Afghanistan have skyrocketed, nearing record highs and primarily benefiting large traffickers and organised ...

Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar's displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fuelling a booming opium ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

Prices for opium in Afghanistan have increased tenfold since the de facto authorities imposed a drug ban in 2022 following ...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has reported a significant rise in the price of opium, reaching $750 per ...

Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing "massive profits" to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the ...

The response is a tangled tale that moves from opium’s use as a sex drug and the varieties of poppy in India to a discussion of the Greek and Arabic etymology of its name. De Orta also tells stories, ...

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

VIENNA: Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing “massive profits” to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations’ drugs ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...