The condemnation of the French Naval Ensign Ullmo to life imprisonment this week on the charge of treason, despite his defense that he was not responsible, owing to opium smoking, has profoundly ...

The United States has been battling an opioid crisis for decades, marked by three distinct waves of rising overdose deaths.

PEKON, Myanmar – Scraping opium resin off a seed pod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by ...

which is a grim prospect for people with substance use disorders who may resort to these alternatives in the absence of heroin. The EU's main objective is to identify and target the criminal networks ...