As far as drugs go, opium is a relic of a long-lost era of intoxication. Sure, opium’s derivatives — substances like heroin, codeine, and fentanyl — make headlines daily, but the original ...

The U.N.'s Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that the overall income generated by domestic consumption, production and exports of opiates in Afghanistan is worth billions of dollars.

San Francisco's ordinance applied only to opium smoking, not to oral consumption of the same drug, which had long been widely available in over-the-counter patent medicines. Nor did it cover ...

Opiate drugs and medications — such as morphine, heroin, and codeine — can be detected in a urine test up to 3 days after use. The words “opiate” and “opioid” are used interchangeably ...

Growing enough poppies to make heroin in the United States doesn't make much economic sense compared to importing the drug from more lawless regions, Wankel said. Compared to marijuana ...

Anguished veterans were hooked on morphine. Genteel “society ladies” dosed up with Laudanum — a tincture of alcohol and opium. The wonder drug was widely used as a cough suppressant and it ...

“The Taliban have counted on the Afghan opium trade as one of their main sources of income,” Cesar Gudes, the head of the Kabul office of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), told Reuters.