Afghans are using opium to treat colds and other basic illnesses amid severe medicine shortages in the country, which is currently in the grip of a major humanitarian crisis.

where the lack of a medical clinic led residents to use opium as their only medicine until half of the 1,800 villagers became addicts. Or the village of Du Ghalat, in Argo, where a hundred ...

The stalks fly in the air, as does the sap from the poppy bulb, releasing the distinctive, pungent smell of opium in its most raw form. Within a matter of minutes, Abdul and a dozen other men raze ...

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Goodman Reporting from Grants, N.M. Never mind that everyone calls him Groovy, or that the company he oversees — Bright Green — is preparing to grow cannabis and opium poppies inside ...

File photo of man working in a poppy field in Myanmar's Shan state The production of opium increased sharply in Myanmar, rising to a nine-year high, according to the UN. It touched nearly 795 ...

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Eating poppy seeds can cause diners to test positive for codeine on a urinalysis,” the Defense Department warned military ...

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