U.N. experts say there has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the ...

Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth.

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. fostered by the crisis that arose after its army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in ...