Recently, a documentary from BBC on how some opioid-based medications especially ones containing tramadol and tapentadol, are imported into the country and abused by mostly young people in low ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hard poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at ...

Myanmar's opiate economy — including the value of ... "Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced," he said. "Residents who can't live in their villages and fled to the jungle are working ...

Some of de Orta’s descriptions of herbs and plants are scientifically ... which encourage opioid dependency in the US, or Shell and BP, which push global dependency on fossil fuels. The opium poppy, ...