In the past two-and-a-half years, Himachal Pradesh Police have destroyed nearly 70 lakh cannabis plants in remote and ...

The world has a shared interest in helping Afghan farmers move on from poppy. But time and again, it has abandoned them and the young Afghans killed by the poisonous harvest to their fate.

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

Opium is a highly addictive narcotic derived from the poppy plant, used historically for pain relief, but now mainly known for its role in producing drugs like morphine and heroin.

Opioids are a class of drugs naturally found in the opium poppy plant.

Opium is extracted from the poppy plant and a key ingredient in heroin production, as well as being a highly addictive narcotic in its own right.

Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged 95 percent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop, according to a UN report published Sunday.

The poppy plant is also a source of morphine and codeine − non-synthetic opioids − as well as heroin, a semi-synthetic opioid made from morphine that has been chemically processed.

WASHIR, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin but dismaying ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country's massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods ...

Taliban eradicate a poppy field in Washir, district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation ...