About 1,700 poppy plants grown for the pharmaceutical industry have been stolen from a regional property north-west of Melbourne, prompting an alert from Victoria's health department. Police said the ...

Thieves have stolen hundreds of 'toxic' poppy heads from a rural farm, prompting a public health alert over the potentially life-threatening products. Police are investigating after intruders looted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Illustration by Lydia Zuraw/KFF Health News) It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline ...

It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom “Seinfeld.” But for some it has been a tragedy. People have died after drinking tea brewed from ...

Thieves have stolen hundreds of “toxic” poppy heads from a rural farm, prompting a public health alert over the potentially life-threatening products. Police are investigating after intruders looted ...

The reason the research is important is because many parts of the world do not have ready access to painkillers like morphine. Although synthetic analgesics are available, these are expensive and it ...

Mississippi is suing Pharmacy Benefit Managers for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic. On Thursday, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed suit against several Pharmacy Benefit Managers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Lydia Zuraw/KFF Health News) It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom ...

It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom Seinfeld. But for some it has been a tragedy. People have died after drinking tea brewed from unwashed ...

People have died after drinking tea brewed from unwashed poppy seeds. And after eating lemon poppy seed bread or an everything bagel, mothers reportedly have been separated from newborns because the ...