A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered in North Carolina and had an estimated value of $500 million, a sheriff says. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid said the only o… ...

Only 2017 and 2018 saw more Afghan soil used to cultivate opium poppies. Workers collect poppy tears, or raw opium, at a plantation of poppies in Zhari district in Kandahar, Afghanistan, March 28 ...

Opium poppy growers in southern Mexico who helped fuel the U.S. heroin epidemic say prices for their product have been driven so low — apparently by the use of synthetic opioids like fentanyl ...

CLAREMONT, N.C. (CBS) A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered in North Carolina and had an estimated value of $500 million, a sheriff tells CBS affiliate WBTV ...

People tend to think of the heroin trail as originating in an opium poppy field in Southeast Asia or Mexico -- not in Northern California. In a statement on Monday, the Monterey County Sheriff’s ...

This week, a research collective that includes UCSD launched the Mexico Opium Network, taking a socio-economic approach to better understand the country’s poppy cultivation.

A giant opium poppy field in Moss Landing was found and destroyed by Monterey County Sheriff's deputies, investigators said Monday.Sheriff's deputies discovered the sprawling field of flowers ...

Afghanistan's opium problem 20 photos. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's opium production has almost doubled this year compared to 2016, while areas that are under poppy cultivation rose by 63 ...

The U.S. vowed to defeat Islamic State in Afghanistan in 2017, and is actively targeting the Taliban. These terrorists get or can get significant funding from opium. To defeat narco-terrorism in ...

Opiates are nothing new—the opium poppy has been cultivated by humans for almost 5,500 years. But just how quickly and widely the use of poppy-derived narcotics spread across the world is under ...

Nearly 10 pounds of opium poppy pods bound for Dover were intercepted in Wilmington last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The shipment, which came into the Port of Wilmington from ...

Researchers at the University of Calgary have discovered the unique genes that allow the opium poppy to make codeine and morphine, opening the door to alternate methods of producing these ...