The United States is losing the New Opium War with China. Leaders in Washington, D.C. appear unwilling to acknowledge that a fight even exists. A crisis of addiction in China in the 19th century ...

British authorities did not annex the region until the early 1800s, and when they tried to protect their monopoly by banning opium farming, the poppy defied them: Flowers continued to grow ...

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The words “Pioneer in the War Against Drugs” are carved into the red granite pedestal upon which he proudly stands, in recognition of his efforts to rid China of opium in the mid-1800s.

resembling a "reverse" scenario of the Opium Wars in the mid-1800s that weakened China's global position, according to a report from Radio Free Asia (RFA). US officials attribute the devastation ...

That place, The San Francisco Examiner explained, was an "opium den," and this was the first raid conducted under an ordinance that the city's Board of Supervisors had enacted on November 15.

After six months of researching the impact the global opium trade had on India and China during the 1800s, Ghosh put down the project, overwhelmed with the grim nature of the subject. A couple years ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

JERUSALEM, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Opium traces have been discovered in Israel in vessels used in burial rituals by the ancient Canaanites, providing one of the world's earliest evidences of use of ...