Poppy plants are the source of opium and heroin. Afghanistan was the world's biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia before the Taliban takeover. What did the ...

Opium poppy plants can be refined to form the the basis for several highly addictive drugs, including heroin. Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, according to the United Nations ...

poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

VIENNA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban ...

The poppy plant poses the biggest threat to the fledgling ... and there are claims that many policemen are on drugs. Opium and heroin addiction is eating away at the fabric of Afghan society.

The country's opium poppy fields are already the source of the majority of the world's heroin, and now this report ... by drug traffickers that a plant commonly found growing wild in parts ...

Unlike synthetic opioids produced using chemicals in a lab, heroin and morphine are ... edicts ordering peasants to harvest ...

Following the poppy ban, prices soared for the resin from which opium and heroin are made. During the first half of 2024, ...

Counter-narcotics police in Afghanistan southern Kandahar province have uncovered illicit drugs including heroin and opium poppy and arrested seven ...

Unlike synthetic opioids produced using chemicals in a lab, heroin and morphine are refined from the ... even issued edicts ordering peasants to harvest more poppy, one of the few plants that ...

For decades, Europe has avoided the fentanyl crisis plaguing North America through a pure supply of heroin straight from Afghanistan. But following the Taliban's poppy ban in 2022, there have been ...