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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KABUL, April 17 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police have discovered 12.5 kg of opium poppy and arrested three individuals on the charge of involvement in the drug business in the northern ...

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

Authorities also confiscated 1,609 bottles, 48,982 capsules, 3,152 injectable narcotics, over 95,000 tablets, and 128 kg of ...

Sumita Misra, Additional Chief Secretary, Home, urged people to use the MANAS helpline, a 24/7 confidential call service ...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders have strongly opposed Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring's statement ...