Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each ...

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 ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation are failing because ... the raw ingredient in heroin, providing about 80 percent of the global crop. Crop sales fund ...

officers at the Port of Philadelphia have intercepted nearly 300 pounds of dried opium poppy pods, marking a significant step in efforts to curb illegal drug trafficking. The shipments ...

Drug dealers from the southern poppy-growing provinces of Kandahar and ... yields around twice the quantity of drug per acre as opium poppies and requires less investment. The U.N. drug report ...

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

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

The opium poppy (Papaver somniferum ... with extracted opium often refined into heroin. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime describes illicit drugs as a major challenge for Iran due ...

Former Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh justified on Friday the anti-poppy campaign which was launched during his ...