Despite more than $7 billion of American counter-narcotics spending, Afghanistan's opium trade has never been bigger, according to a U.S. government watchdog. A new report by the Special Inspector ...

IN view of the growing interest in the United States of America in the opium traffic, particularly with a view to its suppression for moral and humanitarian reasons, it will not be inopportune to ...

Go back just over 150 years, and you find the person at the front and centre of one of the world's biggest drug empires wasn't a cartel or street thugs in South America but a queen. According to ...

The opium poppy looks delicate and innocuous. But for Amitav Ghosh, an Indian writer, it is “one of the most powerful beings that humans have encountered in their time on Earth”. Mr Ghosh’s elegant ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Controlling the opium trade in Afghanistan, the world's leading producer of the drug, is a key element in the fight against Taliban militants. With thousands of U.S. Marines ...

ST. PAUL — At the corner of Sixth and Cedar streets in St. Paul stood a small wooden building. Once a home for the area’s first European settlers, rain, snow and sunlight had baked the wooden panels ...

AT the Eighteenth Session of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium, held in May 1934, the American representative, Mr. Stuart J. Fuller, drew attention to the dangerous situation which has ...