During the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Empire profited heavily from exporting opium from colonial India to China, fuelling addiction and sparking the First Opium War after Chinese official ...

Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Men, women and children sit listlessly on the unkempt lawn of a hospital for drug addicts in this northern Afghan city. Inside, the waiting area is packed with women clad ...

Opium production in Afghanistan increased by considerable amounts in 2016, according to the 2016 Opium Survey for the country, produced by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. As much as 90% of the world ...

ZHARI, Afghanistan -- It's the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan - the country's intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall as ...

Opium production rose 33% in Myanmar, the first season after the military's violent takeover of the country, a U.N. report released Thursday. This jump signifies enhanced sophistication in farming ...

It’s been said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. We might want to add to that cliché that sometimes, when it repeats, shoes can be on other feet and tables can be turned. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afghan men smoke drugs on the side of a highway in the outskirts of Kabul. The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per ...

Deputies seized thousands of opium poppies on Moss Landing, California, over the weekend. Monterey County Sheriff's Office A field filled with thousands of opium poppies — enough to make $45,000 worth ...

Caption from LIFE. Opium smokers seek escape on one of the melancholy wood benches of a Saigan "disintoxification clinic." Opium is a monopoly of the French colonial administration in Indo-China and ...

Plenty of restaurants have a secret seasoning or a prized sauce recipe they keep locked away in a safe — but what if the hidden ingredient that made the food so good was actually illegal narcotics?