MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Men, women and children sit listlessly on the unkempt lawn of a hospital for drug addicts in this northern Afghan city. Inside, the waiting area is packed with women clad ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok’s Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching ...

Open the door to Islam Beg's house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It's just past 8 a.m. and the family of six — including a 1-year-old ...

Abdul Bashir survived his first opium overdose on Tuesday. He was 15 days old. He thrashed against the soiled hospital cot and gurgled the horrible, rhythmic wheezes of the dying. Nurses pressed an ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Opium (Opioid) Addiction Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2020" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Summary clinical trial report, Opium (Opioid ...

Elliott B. Martin Jr.: "There are those who still believe there is something creative about the dense fog of intoxication. To which I say... there are millions of examples of the power of intoxication ...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. Recently, Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy as part of a tentative multi-billion dollar settlement with state and ...

“An object of mingled horror and pity…with yellow pasty face, drooping lids and pin-point pupils…the wreck and ruin of a noble man,” he was a slave to this “burning poison,” writes Dr. Watson, of ...

Though cannabis paranoia was alive and well years before this 1921 article was written, marijuana use was still dubbed a “new menace” facing people living along the Mexican border. According to this ...

Of all plants used in the field of medicine, none has been as widely employed – nor has helped to save as many lives and ease suffering – as the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. The plant and its ...