During the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Empire profited heavily from exporting opium from colonial India to China, ...

BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...

Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

A Kurdish immigrant convicted of smuggling $35 million worth of opium into Canada has been sentenced to 16 years in prison and is at risk of being deported to Iran for his crimes.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war remains one of the world’s primary suppliers of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop ...