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

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

Opioids are derived from the opium poppy plant (natural opioids) or synthesised in laboratories (synthetic opioids). The EU's retail heroin market is estimated to be worth at least €5.2 billion ...

“Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by,” he told AFP in rural Pekon ...

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 ...

"Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich ... He says he regrets growing the substance — the core ingredient in heroin — but said the income is the only thing separating him ...

He says he regrets growing the substance -- the core ingredient in heroin -- but said the income ... "Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced," he said. "Residents who can't live in ...