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 ...

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 ...

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

Opioids are derived from the opium poppy plant (natural opioids) or synthesised in laboratories (synthetic opioids). The EU's retail heroin market is estimated to be worth at least €5.2 billion ...

Around 10% duty is imposed on pharmaceutical products from the US, while barely any duty is imposed on Indian drugs in the US ...

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 ...