The UNODC reports record production in 2023 with an 18 per cent increase in land under poppy cultivation. Civil war has led ...
In a remote corner of Myanmar a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the ...
But when I got inside there were two big, tough guys with guns,” Yoong, 30, tells TIME. “That’s the moment I knew I was in ...
In a remote corner of Myanmar a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the ...
For many farmers in conflict and coup-riven Myanmar, poppy farming has become their only way of making ends meet amid the social and economic turmoil across the country. The opium resin extracted from ...
The Mekong is seeing a surge in synthetic drug production and trafficking, compounded by increasing levels of opium ...
The European Drug Monitoring Center warns of the risk that synthetic opiates could make up for a hypothetical shortage of ...
A Spanish media outlet has reported that the ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has raised concerns over a reduction in ...
Rising heroin shipments from Afghanistan and the surrounding region region threatens to make India’s drug problems worse ...
The new IEA declared a great victory but found that few people in Afghanistan saw this as a win. Foreign aid ceased. About $9 billion of IRA cash is held in foreign banks. In an effort to reduce ...