Opium and opium-based products had an ambiguous status throughout the 19th century. Laudanum, for instance, was a mixture of opium, alcohol and spices and was available as medicine for pain relief ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

The Myanmar Opium Survey 2024 issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that after three consecutive years of growth, the area where opium is cultivated fell by 4% to 45,200 ...