Vivek Chaudhary ‘I Poppy’, which won best international feature at Hot Docs, offers a sobering portrait of a rebel ...

And yet, six months of hard toil yields a mere Rs 9,000, rues his son as Mangilal says on the phone how the poppy farmers were paid Rs 1,500 for a kg of opium in 1998, and 20 years later ...

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production ... and their mercenaries. Most of the production was taking ...

“most farmers who previously cultivated opium are likely experiencing severe financial hardship,” the UN agency warned. Sustainable economic alternatives are urgently needed to discourage them from ...

Among the most commonly used anesthetic agents was mandrake ... potion or placed the root near their nostrils to let them inhale its potent aroma. They commonly used opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) ...

Unknown to them, the drug had been fortified with a nitazene compound called isotonitazene, a highly potent new synthetic ... Cultivating opium poppy is labour-intensive, taking five or six ...

Opium » Used for its soothing, sedative, dreamlike, and even divinatory properties, opium—whose most well-known ... in increasingly potent forms. The history of opium dates back to the Neolithic era.

The flower fields stretch out from the mountain village along most every road – fluttering ... Instead the blooms are a symptom: It is all opium poppy in these fields, and Myanmar again ranks ...

The Met police raid in October was the biggest ever haul of Britain’s most dangerous drug ... caused by the Taliban cracking down on opium poppy fields in Afghanistan. Retired Dr Yates said ...

Kangpokpi district reported the largest area under illegal opium poppy cultivation in Manipur at 17.49 square kilometres (sqkm), or 4,322 acres, in 2023-24, Union Minister for Environment ...

The opium poppy is the key source of many narcotics, including heroin. The UNODC is particularly worried that heroin users will instead resort to the use of nitazenes, a type of highly potent ...

Europe is facing a growing threat from potent synthetic substances, new drug mixtures, and evolving usage patterns, particularly after the Taliban imposed a ban on opium poppy cultivation ... to hold ...