In ”Smoke and Ashes,” Amitav Ghosh takes the reader through a broad, yet deeply personal exploration of opium’s history, its ...

Drug addiction, including addiction to opium, is also called substance use disorder. It’s a disease that impacts both your brain and your behavior. When you are addicted to a drug, you become ...

It worries that gaming addiction poses a threat to teenagers. In 2021 a state-run newspaper complained that online games were ...

On the other hand, tea made from large quantities of unwashed poppy seeds could lead to addiction and overdose, doctors said.

Cooperation with the neighbouring state of Assam, along with enhanced surveillance at check gates can go a long way in tackling drug inflow, thereby saving the youths from the clutches of drugs. Once ...

During harvesting and processing, the seeds can become coated with the opium fluid. Members of the House and Senate have ...

Ex-offender Alvin Chiong doesn’t shy away from his past. In fact, he uses his life story to talk about Singapore’s own ...

During harvesting and processing, the seeds can become coated with the opium fluid. Members of the House and Senate have ...

Miriam Webster defines history as “a chronological record of significant events” and nostalgia as “a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable ...

One of the primary hopes I had from the Jirga was that it would start by holding tribes accountable for acts of terrorism. I ...

There is also ease of use. Smoking, snorting and injecting are not normal acts for a human being. But swallowing is. Pills are easy to use, hence the likelihood of people trying it. Fentanyl is barely ...