The fentanyl epidemic in the U.S. is intensely tragic for individuals and damaging to society, but it is not without precedent. For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed ...

I’ve been vocal about my hesitation to try strains named for synthetic drugs; they put me in a foul state of mind before I even light up. But a friend of mine recently pointed out that such strains as ...

WASHIR, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country's massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear ...

TRY to think of an area where plants haven’t benefited us and you will probably come up short. But as well as providing us with food, medicine and textiles, they are a source of psychoactive drugs.

Afghanistan’s once-booming opium industry has shrunk dramatically with cultivation falling by 20 percent in 2025, according to a United Nations report warning of a sharp rise in synthetic drug ...

Belladonna extract (powdered), opium (powdered); 16.2mg/30mg, 16.2mg/60mg. Idiosyncrasies to atropine and related drugs. Cardiac disease. Incipient glaucoma. GI or GU ...