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Myanmar became the world’s biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government’s crackdown on the trade, according to a United...
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Myanmar became the world’s biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government’s crackdown on the trade, according to a United...
In a secluded compound in south Afghanistan, Bibi Hazrato cries in dismay as a group of men hack down her poppy crop, enforcing a...
Afghans pushed out of work by the coronavirus pandemic after businesses and schools were shuttered have turned to opium cultivation for cash during this...
In a hut on the top of a fog-licked mountain in northern Laos, Vo Pali is getting high. His poison is opium, a sap...
New motorbikes roared through villages in Afghanistan’s Balkh province this summer — markers of growing wealth, observers say, as poppy cultivation leapt by nearly...
With jingling poppy seeds hidden in his pouch, Helmand farmer Nematullah sidled out of Taliban territory to explain how he struck gold —- two...
The reason the research is important is because many parts of the world do not have ready access to painkillers like morphine. Although synthetic...
CHIANG RAI, THAILAND (dpa) – With the destruction of Afghanistan’s poppy crop earlier this year, Myanmar (Burma) has reclaimed its crown as the world’s...