While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, ...

Or opium use? What the Taliban are doing isn't ... It is the place where Americans, in a massive development project after World War II, built an irrigation system that still functions—but ...

The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic effect on his students.

The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and navy were no match for the British navy. As a result of ...

But for a people already battered by a long war, the opium ban has struck a crushing blow, coming as it does amid an economic collapse which has caused near universal poverty in Afghanistan.

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war.

This state-run trade was achieved largely through two wars, which forced China to open its doors to British Indian opium. Hulton Archive Scenes from an opium factory in northern India Historian ...