De Orta also tells stories, for example about the Persian opium enthusiast he met when serving as a physician at the court of ...

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The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

Somewhere, Harry M. Howie is smiling. Howie is the fictional producer and occasional brand ambassador of “Opium,” which has announced its return Sept. 24 to the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

"If anyone were in my shoes, they would likely do the same." - Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished ...

Afghanistan is witnessing a surge in opium prices and the ‘massive profits’ from it are being reaped by criminal gangs, United Nations' drugs watchdog has flagged. But why are opium prices in ...

Sources of World History, Volume II, (New York: HarperCollins CollegePublishers, 1995), pp. 266-69 Kishlansky Introduction: Lin Zexu (1785-1850) was the Chinese Commissioner in Canton whose actions ...

PEKON, Myanmar – Scraping opium resin off a seed pod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by ...