Opium cultivation in Afghanistan jumped 32% during 2022 despite the ruling Taliban regime's ban on narcotics, according to an annual report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

The recent debate in the Balochistan Assembly over the increasing cultivation of poppy in the province has, once again, brought to light an uncomfortable but necessary conversation. Can poppy be ...

Speaker of the Balochistan Assembly, Captain (retd) Abdul Khaliq Achakzai, took serious notice of the matter and issued a ...

Balochistan is currently facing a series of coal mine accidents, alongside a rise in poppy cultivation, which has sparked ...

QUETTA: Lawmakers from both the treasury and opposition benches in the Balochistan Assembly expressed grave concerns on ...

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world's top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last year, a United Nations report ...

This week, a research collective that includes UCSD launched the Mexico Opium Network, taking a socio-economic approach to better understand the country’s poppy cultivation.

Six months after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted Dover-bound opium poppy pods at the Port of Wilmington, officials have seized another shipment. The 3-kilogram package ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged in 2020, poppy cultivation increased by 37 percent. Legitimate pharmaceutical companies also buy opium from licensed producers, who increasingly buy from Indian ...

Nearly 10 pounds of opium poppy pods bound for Dover were intercepted in Wilmington last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The shipment, which came into the Port of Wilmington from ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, 2023, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may ...