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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers ... alleviation in the motivation to continue to grow opium.” “It’s very important for the ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.