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

KABUL, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The police have discovered more than 270 kg of illegal drugs, including 70 kg of heroin, in western Afghanistan's Herat province, provincial police spokesman Ghulam Nabi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But following the Taliban's poppy ban in 2022, there have been fears that a heroin drought will clear the way to even deadlier alternatives. Unlike synthetic opioids produced using chemicals in a lab, ...

Workers were also given poppy petals to encase the opium ... It focused on Turkish, Bengal and Malwa opium. Turkish opium, once the dominant form of the drug in trade, was traditionally shaped ...

The CIA staff of the Ludhiana police commissionerate have arrested three persons allegedly for drug peddling in two separate cases. The police seized 2.1-kg opium and 270-gm heroin from their ...