poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

Sow your opium poppies - used to make medical painkillers including morphine, codeine and oxycodone, as well as illegal ...

KABUL, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's counter-narcotics police have seized more than 1 ton of illegal drugs, including 148 kg of opium poppy and 774 kg of a variety of objects used in manufacturing ...

Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of ...

KABUL, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Security personnel have discovered and destroyed a drug processing lab in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, a spokesman of the national army in the province, Nazir ...

It’s done by extracting chemicals called alkaloids from dried, mature poppy plants. Opium vs. heroin Opium is a key ingredient used to make heroin. Drugmakers first extract the chemical morphine ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...

A dramatic drug bust in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh district sees police seizing 407 kg of opium poppy husk from a fleeing ...

Drug peddler Vikas Sohu arrested with ₹3.05 crore worth of drugs in Shamshabad, part of larger narcotics distribution network.