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 ...

On Wednesday, February 12, 32 parcels of poppy ... poppy plant are controlled under Schedule II of the federal Controlled Substances Act, as morphine and codeine are naturally occurring opiates ...

Tapentadol is a strong opioid, which is a class of drugs generally made from the opium poppy plant. The category of these drugs is used as painkillers as they block pain signals by binding to ...

How fentanyl flooded into the illicit opioid market in the United States. Unlike heroin, which is derived from the opium poppy ... to wait for a new crop to grow; if they have the precursor ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted a total of 257 pounds of opium poppy pods from Madrid 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 ...