As the novelist Amitav Ghosh demonstrates in his new work of nonfiction, “ Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories,” the unassuming opium poppy is to blame for much of the devastation that ...

Although China had partially enforced a ban on opium importation since 1729, heavily guarded ships took the product from the Ghazipur and Patna factories to Calcutta, where it was auctioned to ...

Two men have been arrested at a three-hectare opium poppy field in Chilliwack, B.C., the largest operation of its kind found in Canada, according to the RCMP.

Despite the increase, the cultivation of opium poppies – the source of the raw material for much of the world’s heroin – remains well below the levels reached before the Taliban clampdown in ...