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Evidence is mounting that profits from Afghanistan’s booming opium economy are funding the revived Taliban insurgency in the south and east of the country, as well as the remnants of Osama bin Laden’s ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has surged to a ten-year high, the United Nations reported on Wednesday, underscoring how ...

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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium, Lucy Inglis, Pegasus Books, February 2019, 464 pages. Opioid drugs—including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioids—were responsible for nearly 50,000 ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. After Uruguay courageously legalized the use of cannabis under a new drug policy, could Iran be the next country ...