If we have opium as a treatment for opium, we may as well have marijuana as a treatment for opium.
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YSL Black Opium Figuring out how to promote Black Opium, a "youthful interpretation" of the legendary 1977 Yves Saint Laurent fragrance Opium, was a challenge, Mr. Choueiri of L'Oréal said.
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I ended up going to an opium den with an Asian woman, where I used opium.
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Opium poppyPhoto: HonzaXJ (Wikimedia Commons)The opium poppy is famous for its ability to produce painkilling molecules.
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Opium poppies are used to make opium and heroin, as well as morphine and other pain-killing drugs.
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Yet if the opium trade led to violence, violence has also led to the development of innovative applications for opium.
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Opium — arguably man's first true analgesic — was supplanted by morphine after opium was found to cause physical and psychological dependence.
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Smoking opium became outlawed by the Qing Dynasty following a series of opium wars between China and the Western world.
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But the involvement of opium was inescapable — thus the name "Opium War," as the London Times and other papers called it.
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Multiple visits to Afghan opium country over the past year, and extensive interviews with opium farmers, local elders, and Afghan and Western officials, laid bare the reality that even if the Western-backed government succeeds, the opium seems here to stay.
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Opium worked, but it also killed some babies who overdosed, so we realized that [giving babies opium] was a bad thing to do.
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Both are important agricultural zones and major sources of opium poppy, and Musa Qala is a center of opium refining and heroin production.
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Playing off the Marxist claim that religion was the opium of the masses, Aron argued that Marxism was the opium of the intellectuals.
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Some of the more commonly prescribed opioids are drugs like hydrocodone and oxycodone, which literally come from opium — you need opium to make them.
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More opium = more terrorism -Since 2010, rising opium production has "shown a closer correlation with rising terrorist attacks," the 2017 UN report said. 5.
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"Increased law enforcement efforts by Iran apparently restricted Afghan opium exports and therefore contributed to the decline of opium production," the UN report said.
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The setting is richly imagined, and the switch from hardware stores to opium stores, competing against Opium Depot, is a brilliant bit of the unreal.
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Today, the opium that was used for recreational smoking in the form of pure opium, or apheem, is used to manufacture the world's most popular heroin.
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History textbooks and television shows widely depict how the country was ravaged by opium addiction in the 19th century, a major driver in the Opium Wars.
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It was featured prominently in the newest iteration of Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume, Black Opium by YSL, as well as Polo Red by Ralph Lauren.
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Key location The town is in the heartland of Taliban territory and a key opium poppy-producing region, and a major route for the Taliban opium trade.
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China takes a strict stance on narcotics domestically, remembering how the country was ravaged by opium addiction in the 19th century, a factor in the Opium Wars.
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The amount of Afghan opium is rising -Afghanistan's average opium yield per 2.5 acres increased 30% in 2016, compared with the previous year, according to the UN. 4.
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"Over the weekend the Sheriff's Office Investigations Division eradicated one acre of opium poppies, which contained approximately 27,000 plants of opium poppies and another 16,500 harvested plants," the statement said.
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But opium became widespread again after the fall of the Qing Empire, and opium taxes became a source of revenue for warlords, provincial governments and leaders of the warring Kuomintang and Communist parties.
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The Opium War GARMSIR, Afghanistan — The United States spent more than $220 billion in the past 2000 years to fight the runaway poppy production that has made Afghan opium the world's biggest brand.
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Here memories of the Opium Wars are very much alive.
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They get a tenth of the opium produced in Afghanistan.
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The opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is primarily grown in Asia.
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Humans have cultivated the opium poppy for five thousand years.
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"This used to be an opium den," a host claimed.
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How about 362 grams of individually wrapped Turkish opium chocolates?
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And what if ISIS hijacks the opium and heroin trade?
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The Turks, it was said, all suffered from opium dependence.
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" For writing the words "Optimism is the opium of mankind!
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The mid-19th-century Opium Wars, which brought a great Chinese economic machine to its knees, resulted from Britain's trying to contain China's last export boom by forcing the Asian nation to import opium.
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In the mid-19th century, China and then-powerful empire Britain fought two separate "Opium Wars" after the Chinese tried to stop Britain smuggling and selling the highly-addictive drug opium within the country.
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Government figures suggested opium eradication nationwide remains strong and may even be rising: In the first four months of 2018, soldiers destroyed 12,834 hectares (31,713 acres) of opium poppies, and only 720 hectares of marijuana.
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The geometry is so exact that some experts theorize that the opium plant and our neural architecture is the result of symbiotic co-evolution (some even think opium poppies shaped the development of human consciousness).
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There are also plenty of accounts of American merchants making money in the opium trade to China, which had criminalized the trade of opium, even though other countries thought it was a legitimate business practice.
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China has a long and complicated history with the opium poppy.
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Does Wood mean to evoke the smoke from an opium pipe?
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Marx wrote of all religion, the opium of (We) the People.
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Opium gum prices are plummeting across Mexico, not just in Sinaloa.
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Unlike opium, meth is a synthetic drug made by mixing chemicals.
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The other challenge is opium, far and away Afghanistan's biggest export.
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For years, the Beltrán Leyva cartel had controlled Guerrero's opium production.
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Raw opium production increased by 88 percent over the same period.
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The opium of the masses no longer provides the same high.
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When Iranian police raided her house, they found opium and cocaine.
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At that time, heroin, cocaine and opium were sold without restriction.
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Critics compared the opium trade to the recently banned slave trade.
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In China, many millions of people were hooked on smoking opium.
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Ms. Choi believed her sister carried opium tucked into her clothing.
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Opium production is spiking despite $8 billion spent to fight it.
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A burgeoning illicit opium trade also jeopardizes security, governance and development.
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In some areas of Afghanistan, the Taliban have provided seeds for farmers to grow opium on the insurgents' behalf, or paid middlemen to purchase opium for them to store while they wait for prices to increase.
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In 1875, our country passed its first anti-drug law banning the use of opium in the name of protecting white women from being intoxicated and sexually assaulted by Chinese men in so-called opium dens.
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The new push against Taliban opium facilities comes in the wake of a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs which recently estimated that opium production in Afghanistan had increased by 87% in 2017.
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So far, it has had little impact on the opium trade which the United Nations estimates is worth some $3 billion a year in Afghanistan, source of most of the world's opium, from which heroin is produced.
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Anecdotally, farmers in Guerrero say authorities do focus more on eradicating opium.
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There's no fake money, and Mafia, and opium, those kind of things.
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It produces an estimated 80% of the world's opium, according to SIGAR.
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Mr Kurlantzick looks into allegations that the CIA sold heroin and opium.
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Nietzsche was reportedly addicted to opium while writing The Genealogy of Morality.
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Cain's act was, like opium, a royal road to the human unconscious.
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Opium smoking is a traditional habit in Iran, but alcohol's frowned upon.
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The use of the plane will help destroy Taliban opium production facilities.
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Mike Jay: Opium was used very widely, and it was a medication that most people were familiar with—but it wasn't thought of as a mind-altering drug until Thomas De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
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Huang Yanming, a pro-democracy activist in south-west China, argues that the wars were more about the freedom to trade than a struggle over opium—calling them "Opium Wars", he says, is tantamount to "abandoning historical truth".
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Organised Crime found in its 2018 opium survey that, at 6,400 metric tons, opium production post-Iron Tempest was still almost double the level of 21,268 metric tons produced in 22010.
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Opium poppies must be irrigated, well-fertilized, must get regular applications of pesticides.
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And we know that opium has been used for a very long time.
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Heroin, unlike fentanyl, is derived from the seeds of the opium poppy plant.
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They later confirmed the plants were Papaver Somniferum, commonly known as opium poppies.
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Deputies said they eradicated one acre of opium poppies, which contained 27,000 plants.
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Despite the efforts, Afghanistan's opium poppy crop cultivation reached record levels in 2013.
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Part of Trump's strengthened bombing campaign was intended to target Afghanistan's opium production.
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Doctors treated him with opium and other medications that proved to be useless.
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Benjamin Franklin abused laudanum, an opium and alcohol mixture for his bodily pains.
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And then there were the two Opium Wars fought between China and Britain.
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Farmers there mostly cultivate opium poppy, and regularly pay taxes to the Taliban.
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This is the same substance that helps opium poppies produce their narcotic effect.
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Why are many Mexican farmers and their children growing and harvesting opium poppies?
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Branwell Brontë, brother to the famous sisters, was an alcoholic and opium addict.
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Their interests, he and other analysts and Afghan officials say, overlapped in opium.
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And this despite the country's opium crop being hit by blight last year.
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Opium has flourished in Afghanistan since most NATO forces pulled out in 2014.
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And in November, U.S. forces began bombing Taliban opium plants in Helmand province.
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We wouldn't be funding the Taliban through their shipments of opium poppy heroin.
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Mr. Stewart bested this easily: He smoked opium at a wedding in Iran.
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In her book "The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China", she says the move into opium by British traders was not, as claimed by many Chinese historians, a deliberate conspiracy to make narcotic slaves of the Chinese.
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As far back as the 1940s, it was known to relieve symptoms of opium withdrawal; in fact, it was actually banned by the Thai government in 1943 precisely because its use as a substitute led to decreased revenues from opium taxes.
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The two nations also want to deepen efforts to eradicate opium and marijuana plantations.
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From their earliest uses, opium and its cousins have both soothed and troubled people.
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The mountains around Iguala are a key production zone for opium paste and heroin.
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The third opioid is heroin, derived from opium poppies, almost all of it illegally.
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The Taliban controls large areas of Helmand, source of much of Afghanistan's opium crop.
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Karl Marx's most quoted line is about religion being the opium of the people.
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Fentanyl was synthesized in a laboratory, and heroin is derived from the opium poppy.
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His life ended, at 31, in a suicidal spiral of alcohol and opium addiction.
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Opium and its derivatives have been part of human society for thousands of years.
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This sweeping history explores our millennia-long relationship with Papaver somniferum , the opium poppy.
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His addiction to opium and the guilt he feels hit against his innate decency.
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David Mansfield, an international drug policy consultant, has studied 20 opium harvests in Afghanistan.
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Britain and France waged a second Opium War against China from 1856 to 1860.
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Despite the size of Afghanistan's opium problem, not much is being done about it.
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One touches on the Opium Wars to note the sense of history repeating itself.
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As a result, about the only thing the country does not import is opium.
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This is how morphine is made in the opium poppy, and mescaline in cactuses.
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Helmand is the country's most important battlefield, and the capital of Afghanistan's opium trade.
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Going to confession as a joke, she baits him by comparing religion to opium.
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Opioid uses and abuses Opium and chemically similar substances have predictable effects on humans.
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Throughout it all, opium eradication helped to turn the local populace against American troops.
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In the key findings of its annual Afghanistan opium survey, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said output of opium made from poppy seeds in Afghanistan, the world's main source of heroin, stands at around 9,000 metric tons this year.
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"Kratom is a tree in the coffee family, not the opium family," the letter read.
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For centuries farmers have grown poppies on the hillsides and used them to make opium.
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Some opium farmers in Shan state are said to receive half their pay in pills.
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So if opium were Schedule I, all those pharmaceutical manufacturers would be breaking the law.
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A subtle reminder of the Opium Wars lingers, however, around one of the garden's lakes.
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Another museum dedicated to the Opium Wars, the Sea Battle Museum, opened nearby in 1999.
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Opium dens like those in "Edwin Drood" were a cultural problem, not a pharmaceutical one.
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Until 1916, this newspaper listed opium in its weekly list of commodities prices (see above).
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The Taliban were forcing them to stop growing opium poppies, but it was tough going.
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The source of the Taliban's strength in Helmand – opium – was less of a factor elsewhere.
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Americans have become addicted in record number to opium-based painkillers, best known as opioids.
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Myanmar destroyed 3,533 hectares of opium poppies in 2017, down from 13,450 hectares in 2015.
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Its giant neighbor China remained the largest market for the heroin made from Myanmar's opium.
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Back in the 1950s, commercial production of opium in the region started to take off.
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He subjected women to horrific experiments, drugging them with opium afterwards to mask their pain.
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His neighbor was growing a small amount to feed his grandfather's opium addiction, Zhou said.
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So would you say that the social networks are the new opium of the people?
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" De Quincey rendered himself eminently censurable with his masterpiece, "Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
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In fact, Afghanistan has come to produce 22008 percent of the world's opium to date.
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And just chemically, it's well known that exercise is good for endorphins; it's like opium.
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Founded in the mid-1800s, Chinatown was notorious for opium dens, gambling houses and brothels.
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The treatment at the time — silver nitrate, opium and tannic acid enemas — destroyed his intestines.
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If it avoids any icky kissing, it includes a scene set in an opium den.
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Hang out in the opium recovery ward and find out what people are really thinking.
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His typed and handwritten notes certainly anticipated opium dealing and hatchet and martial-arts battles.
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The Chinese lived through the Opium Wars and the unequal treaties, which involved Western interference.
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Opium production hit a record in 2017, up 87 percent over 2016, the U.N. says.
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Opium addiction becomes an over-chewed metaphor for the lulling security of one's native home.
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Long before he tried opium, Thomas De Quincey, the English essayist, was addicted to books.
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It's hashish, opium, Adderall, cocaine, anal sex, BDSM, sex work, sorcery, ordeal, and holy rage.
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But he remained tethered to his otherworldly visions, writing Les Paradis artificiels, Opium et Haschisch (The Artificial Paradise, Opium and Hashish) in 1860 — where he resumed an interest in drugs he had first investigated in Du Vin et du haschisch (On Wine and Hashish) (1851).
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Instead, she said, Afghanistan was becoming more volatile despite recent US bombing missions on the country's poppy fields: The United Nations 2018 Afghanistan Opium Survey found that opium poppy cultivation remained at very high levels despite a 13 percent territorial drop compared to 2017.
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Mayors, governors and federal officials have turned a blind eye to opium fields and meth superlabs.
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About half of Afghanistan's opium is produced in areas of high insurgent activity, according to SIGAR.
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Add a record-high opium boom to the list of alarming metrics coming out of Afghanistan.
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Like opium itself, Ms Inglis discovers, the internet has been both a blessing and a curse.
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Taxation on a districtwide level in the main opium-growing centers, however, has been less common.
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Opium helps to fund the Taliban, as well as pro-government warlords who are scarcely better.
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For the past 50 years or so, much of that opium has been refined into heroin.
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The ayatollah mandated the veil for women and banned broadcast music, which he compared to opium.
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Charlie Boston, who led the On Leongs after Lee's death, controlled a nationwide opium distribution network.
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To make an opioid drug, you need opium (unless it's synthetic, but more on that later).
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The following is an excerpt from 'Opium Eater: The New Confessions,' out this month from Nonvella.
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Most of the opium would go across to the West Coast of America, obviously from China.
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Rahmatullah Alokozai, whose main duty is opium eradication, has declared there will be none in 2016.
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Thirteen drug-trafficking organizations control the opium trade in Afghanistan — seven of which are in Helmand.
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The source of the raw opium for those labs was reported to be Iran and Afghanistan.
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"The issue of opium cultivation is a huge problem," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told me.
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It led to the [First] Opium War and that's the great stain on the British reputation.
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And it is never enough to stop the opium gum and heroin reaching the border either.
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One method of stirring up anti-Chinese hatred was to attack the practice of opium smoking.
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Ultimately, Wizard Bloody Wizard is an opium-laced, fuzzed-out homage to all that is dreadful.
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Opium was common in North Korea, where poppies grew all over the place, Ms. Choi said.
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But officials say that now, at least half of Afghan opium is processed in the country.
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Solor's opium chamber works poorly as a place either to receive Gamsatti or to envision Nikia.
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In researching opium addiction in late-19th-century America, I've come across countless stories like Henderson's.
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Opium in Afghanistan has flourished since most NATO forces pulled out of the country in 2000.
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Some attendees, however, found the allusions to opium bars and Asian courtesans to be tone-deaf.
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An earlier version of this article misstated where Rory Stewart, Britain's international development secretary, smoked opium.
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Beyond its symbolic value, Helmand remains a focus of their attacks not only because it is the gateway to other southern provinces, but also because its fields produce the highest amount of opium in Afghanistan and its vast deserts sit on the main opium trade route.
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Though the problems of growers are now talked about more openly than ever before, and the idea of medical opium is sneaking onto the political agenda, some experts are skeptical that Guerrero, or any other poppy-growing state, has the capability to manage a legal opium industry.
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One of the most eloquent descriptions of that hard fate comes to us from more than 200 years ago, back in the days when opium and laudanum (a solution of opium in alcohol) were perfectly legal in England, and as widely available as, yes, aspirin is today.
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The world's output of opium rose by 65% in 2017, reaching its highest level since records began.
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Global opium production rose by 65% in 2017, to 10,500 tonnes, the highest level since records began.
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One local farmer points to a former opium poppy field tucked into the fold of steep hillside.
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As you're probably aware, the poppy's sap, called opium, contains pain-killing chemicals like morphine and codeine.
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So someone could start on opium, because it's now potentially more accessible, and eventually climb to heroin.
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It accounts for the biggest share of opium cultivation, a principal source of revenue for the Taliban.
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"Last night, Afghan and U.S. forces launched operations in Helmand to abolish opium processing labs," he said.
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Heroin is a shocking blight on Afghanistan, one bolstered by the country's endless supply of cheap opium.
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ANCIENT Egyptians, Sumerians, Greeks and many others knew the powers of opium poppies and employed them extensively.
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The government has accused the activists of wanting to cultivate opium poppies and of propagating Maoist revolution.
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Tuesday's attacks in Helmand may signal that the militants are on the march in Afghanistan's opium heartland.
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As a young teen he began using marijuana, opium, cocaine, meth, and LSD, as well as alcohol.
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To Mr Xi, China's defeats in the Opium Wars are proof that weak countries will be defeated.
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Over several centuries local merchants became rich in the trade and transport of opium, cotton, and spices.
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He passed out cold and was promptly injected with more opium in hopes of waking him up.
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In the middle decades of the 20th century, Indian opium was just a workable, last-ditch resort.
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The region covers major smuggling routes into Iran from Helmand, source of much of Afghanistan's opium crop.
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This will leave the Taliban at the mercy of their foreign patrons and the sale of opium.
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Opium smoking was also fashionable in the bohemian circles they frequented, and Wood became a lifelong addict.
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This year it has been steadily gaining territory, fueled by cash earned from opium and heroin production.
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His intake of opium in these years was heroic: up to 10,000 drops of laudanum a day.
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From 2014 to 2015, opium eradication in Helmand nearly doubled, to great acclaim in drug enforcement circles.
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By 22011, Afghanistan exported 275 thousand tonnes of opium that travelled as far as Europe and Russia.
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At the height of the boom, a kilo of opium paste sold for some 36,000 pesos ($1,254).
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Opium eradication or interception got little attention in the Trump administration's new strategy for the Afghan war.
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All night, saucy cheongsam-clad entertainers dance in cages and lounge on platforms reminiscent of opium beds.
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Rory Stewart, the international development secretary, confessed to smoking opium at a wedding while trekking through Asia.
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Before the reform, possessing 5 kilograms of opium or 30 grams of heroin was a capital offense.
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Flush with cash from its domination of the opium trade, the Taliban may simply be buying them.
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Some of the hotel's first foreign guests were a British team sent to coordinate opium-eradication efforts.
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On one of these missions, in 1804, a fellow-student recommended opium to De Quincey, for pains.
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The formula had been set early: debt, here in the form of deadlines unmet; procrastination; and opium.
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In another group chat conversation in November 2018, Thomasberg whined about how his opium hadn't arrived yet.
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The same is true of Arab terrorists who control Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and its opium/heroin production.
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IMPERIAL TWILIGHT: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age, by Stephen R. Platt.
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The 19th century Opium Wars — in which China lost Hong Kong for 150 years — still resonates there.
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Queen Victoria was fond of both opium and cannabis, before being introduced to cocaine later in life.
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KS: Like I've always said, we don't need to smoke opium to get the effects of morphine.
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Taliban forces recently recaptured districts in the opium-rich Helmand province after a withdrawal by Afghan forces.
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Experts debate whether the Taliban prohibited growing opium because it conflicted with sharia or to inflate the price of opium already on the market, but, confronted with the might of a superpower's military, the illegal drug trade became one of the more lucrative methods of sustaining the insurgency.
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" Newspaper editorials thundered that the Chinese opium menace must be wiped out lest it "decimate our youth, emasculate the coming generation, if not completely destroy the population of our coast," and that for white Americans, smoking opium was "not at all consistent with their duties as Capitalists or Christians.
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The opium poppy is known to have been cultivated in Mesopotamia in 21961BC (the Sumerians apparently called it the "joy plant") and opium was recommended before surgery from at least as early as the second century AD, when the Greek philosopher Celsus recorded its use as an anaesthetic.
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In the village outside the police post, children play in fields of tall white and pink opium poppies.
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Candidates for soma-haoma that have been proposed by scholars have included honey, opium, cannabis, and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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You see it in the 19th century in California where Chinese immigrants were accused in trading in opium.
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Using heroin as an example, Rolles argues that many opioid users could satisfy their desires by smoking opium.
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Some of these rivals fought Mansour's men for land, mostly in the opium poppy-growing southern Taliban heartland.
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Farah, which also borders the opium-rich Taliban heartland of Helmand province, has key smuggling routes into Iran.
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Afghanistan's ubiquitous poppy fields enjoyed bumper crops in recent years, fueling local opium markets and global heroin trafficking.
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Insurgents generate an estimated $200 million a year from poppy cultivation and opium production, according to the Pentagon.
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They're addicted to opium where they take other people's money and their high is getting to redistribute it.
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Beyond the peaks, invisible from the meandering dirt roads leading into the mountains, farmers harvest opium and marijuana.
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Governments across the region are struggling with the health and security problems brought by the increased opium flow.
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Afghan forces have been on the defensive for months in the opium-growing heartland of southern Helmand Province.
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He was indeed a heavy drinker—possibly never fully sober, by one report—and a user of opium.
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Farmers in India are fighting tooth and nail to keep a scourge of opium-addicted parrots at bay.
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The UN report added that improving opium poppy yields were also major factor behind the spike in production.
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So opium, for example, is not an accepted medicine in the US. But how do you make morphine?
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Black Opium is masculine and feminine, it has high and lows, it has musky smells and sweet smells.
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, Qing emperors issued orders to try to ban the import of opium.
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It does contain opium but only in trace amounts, similar to hemp and the trace amounts of THC.
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The synthetic yaba pill doesn't depend on unreliable opium harvests; it is small, attractive and easy to smuggle.
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For the previous decade, opium cultivation had increased annually before stabilizing at high levels, according to UNODC data.
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According to historian Peter Knight, opium largely came over to America with Chinese immigrants on the West Coast.
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration says opium poppy is a source for codeine, heroin, morphine and other narcotics.
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The milky fluid in the unripened seed pod is scraped by hand and air-dried to produce opium.
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Opium profits The resurgent Taliban have captured almost all of the key poppy-growing Afghan province of Helmand.
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Taliban insurgents are known to benefit from the crop in some areas by taxing farmers and opium traders.
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"We've got a Zika crisis, an opium epidemic and gun violence in the news every day," he said.
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"We've got a Zika crisis, an opium epidemic and gun violence in the news every day," Himes said.
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The region's vast opium production, which the insurgents are already tapping into, could further fuel their war machine.
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For years, the Golden Triangle was the source of the majority of the world's illegal heroin and opium.
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Americans, already skeptical of the drug, quickly latched onto xenophobic beliefs that opium somehow made Chinese immigrants dangerous.
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The Taliban have long profited from the opium trade by taxing and providing security for producers and smugglers.
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IMPERIAL TWILIGHT The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age By Stephen R. Platt Illustrated.
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When he went back to Mirjaveh last winter, he was immediately offered a job smuggling opium and heroin.
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The bush grows best above 2,500 metres (8,200 feet), and is thus suited to different provinces from opium.
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Her father is an opium addict and a mercurial disciplinarian who remarries upon his divorce from Julie's mother.
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By the late 19th century, Harrison writes, they were responsible for 70 percent of the world's opium trade.
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In 2018, opium cultivation covered 2018,000 hectares in Afghanistan, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
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What we learn about the specifics of opium addiction in this book — "ei vai," as Nayeri's characters say.
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The Taliban now controls much of the country, which is awash with refugees, and opium production has quadrupled.
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The British empire made a vast fortune by sending opium from its Indian colony to customers throughout Asia.
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Most notably, the emperor of the Qing dynasty in China attempted to make opium trade and cultivation illegal.
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He took our jewels and cultivated opium addictions and connived for power, and then he starved us all.
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Its eight themes of focus include drugs like cocaine and opium, as well as sex and social protest.
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Globally, the number of people using heroin, opium and morphine has changed little in recent years, the report indicated.
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Afghan farmers harvest opium sap from a poppy field in Zari District of Kandahar province on April 12, 2016.
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In recent years, the insurgents have committed more and more working hours to every facet of the opium business.
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"In the case of the opium trade, they try harder," said one counternarcotics law enforcement official in southern Afghanistan.
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It says in a statement officials became aware of a possible opium poppy field in Moss Landing last week.
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So long as the southern route thrives, the demand for opium to salve the soul is unlikely to ease.
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Jason Odio left Opium Group a few years ago, and invested in Little Havana's "resurgent" main street Calle Ocho.
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In a country with a thriving opium trade, that means laborious inspections of invoices and spot-checks of premises.
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Monterey County Sheriff's Office has reported finding an opium poppy field under cultivation in Moss Landing in Northern California.
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According to the UNODC survey, opium cultivation plummeted in 2017 despite the government scaling back its poppy-eradication efforts.
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The rural swath has a strong Taliban presence and is a center of the opium trade in the country.
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"We once again ask our international partners to close the international [opium] market" said Afghan government spokesperson to CNBC.
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Americans, already skeptical of the drug, quickly latched on to xenophobic beliefs that opium somehow made Chinese immigrants dangerous.
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It was called opium, and it was still being used when I did my medical training in the 1970s.
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Some, such as morphine, are made from the opium poppy; others, such as oxycodone, are semi-synthetic or synthetic.
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The tempo of fighting increased over the summer after a brief lull for the late-spring opium cultivation season.
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There was no answer to the problem of "poppy debt" (the farmers had to pay drug lords with opium).
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He grew up in Tlacotepec, a small mountain village in Guerrero State known for opium poppy harvests and violence.
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When they bore holes in the skin, pull them out and place a grain of opium in each hole.
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Millenniums later, during the American Civil War, the Union Army used 10 million opium pills to treat wounded soldiers.
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Sumner's spirits are kept high by the opium, but there is always a darkness at the core of him.
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"We have to take into account that the demand for non-medical opium will continue to exist," she said.
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Mr. Trump had put little emphasis on the opium trade in his new strategy toward Afghanistan, announced in August.
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Mr. Adams's host in Helmand revealed himself to be a former insurgent while showing him around his opium fields.
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I started going to the Countee Cullen library, and began reading about opium and the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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The latest iteration, which began in 2017 and primarily targeted opium-producing facilities, was called off late last year.
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I never properly covered, for instance, people who collect antique cannons, tractors, eyeglasses, ice cream scoops and opium bottles.
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The opium fug transports Mallo into his past, raking over the choices he's made on the road to greatness.
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Shortly after she became pregnant, archives show, she left her husband to pursue a life among opium-trafficking bandits.
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Her mother was arrested three times and her relationship with Nayeri's father, an opium addict who abused her, deteriorated.
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The southern province, much of it under Taliban control, provides the group with much of its funding through opium.
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In 22019, Afghanistan was looking at a bumper harvest, according to the UNODC, which monitors opium crops in Afghanistan.
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" Or consider this quote from the same work, "The opium-eater loses none of his moral sensibilities or aspirations.
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All the opium in the world Many are turning to alcohol and drugs to cope with the tremendous stress.
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Iran has one of the highest incidences of drug abuse in the world, mostly tied to heroin and opium.
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Furthermore, these patent medicines often contained rather surprising ingredients, such as alcohol, opium, morphine, and even cocaine and heroin.
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Opium poppies and humans share a history dating back to the Neolithic period, according to the paper published in Science.
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Kandahar province, on the border with Pakistan, is a major center of opium cultivation and a stronghold of the Taliban.
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A growing number of criminal groups in Guerrero are battling over territory used to grow opium poppies for heroin production.
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Populism is one of today's two opiums of the people: one is the people, and the other is opium itself.
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But in Garmsir and other places in the Helmand opium belt, the system is firmly in place and remarkably consistent.
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In Ancient Rome, for one, women wore wool tampons soaked in opium to ease cramping, which honestly sounds pretty sweet.
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It starts with a plant—the opium poppy—that has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years.
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Gangs are battling over the territory where opium poppies are grown to make the heroin that has flooded U.S. streets.
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Two particularly interesting possibilities are the cannabinoids made by marijuana and the variations on opium and morphine made by poppies.
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In 1839, Britain attacked China because it refused to allow British traders to continue providing Chinese people with addictive opium.
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A Second Opium War against Britain and France ultimately led to the continued erosion of China's power and internal stability.
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Yet their drugs came from German companies like Merck, which bought their opium from Turkish merchants instead of Indian ones.
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"Opium for women [by Yves Saint Laurent] mixed with a bit of Flower Blossom for a strong perfume," she revealed.
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For many American visitors the city's debauched nightlife was their first opportunity to snort cocaine or visit an opium den.
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The drug business in Southeast Asia still includes cultivation of opium and heroin, but methamphetamine and synthetic drugs now dominate.
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In Helmand Province, Afghanistan's largest in territory and poppy cultivation, farmers and officials are reporting high yields of raw opium.
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It is a powerful semi-synthetic opiate derived from the opium poppy and is used illicitly as a recreational drug.
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Hippocrates suggested its use for female ailments, and a ninth-century Persian physician advocated the use of opium for melancholia.
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For the West, tea from China was the drug of choice and opium was used to finance the growing addiction.
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The group's resurgence has largely been financed by Afghanistan's opium trade despite US efforts to bomb it out of existence.
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As the U.S. heroin crisis rages, the Mexican army is taking its war on opium into the poppy fields themselves.
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"In one Chinese coffin, an opium pipe and a small ceramic vessel were included in the funerary ensemble," said Gomez.
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Mr. Qaem said the situation could improve if opium crop eradication efforts factored more into the planning of security operations.
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At age 70, Adul had already escaped a territory in Myanmar known for guerrilla warfare, opium cultivation and methamphetamine trafficking.
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The biggest transformation has been the use of social media, and Twitter is the opium of the sports-reporting masses.
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When I was young, I coveted YSL's Opium ($122) — it was all the rage, and the cool kids wore it.
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Ali explains how smugglers head to Pakistan through the mountains using back roads, to pick up morphine, heroin, or opium.
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The UN plans to start satellite and ground surveys to measure the crop, just as it does with opium poppies.
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The province is the country's largest opium-producing area, and the violence there is sometimes related to the drug trade.
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The work's "story" — a tale of unrequited love and a hellish opium trip — is evocative, suspenseful and at times horrifying.
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Last year, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan counted over 10,000 civilian casualties, while opium production reached record levels.
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After the American-led invasion in 2001, the government-turned insurgent group turned to the opium trade for financial support.
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Nadir scraped the gum from poppy bulbs into plastic containers to be used in making opium, heroin and other drugs.
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And for much of the 20th Century, the majority of the world's opium and heroin came from the Golden Triangle.
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It's called "Natural Opium: Some Travelers' Tales," and it appeared in 1993, when the author was in her late 50s.
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Opium trade routes from Yunnan caused the third global plague outbreak in 1894, but it has since become increasingly rare.
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They were also supposed to encourage farmers to abandon the cultivation of opium poppy, the region's most lucrative cash crop.
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The U.S. really does consume almost all of the world's opium in the form of prescription opioid painkillers and heroin.
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The Opium Wars, as every Chinese schoolchild is reminded, began as a British attempt to pry open the Chinese market.
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Longer-term goals, Sanchez added, include decriminalizing the recreational use of marijuana and the cultivation of opium for medicinal purposes.
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The Taliban made no effort to hide from the marchers the opium poppy cultivation and heroin labs in their territory.
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Throughout the 21967th century opium was imported to Britain and sold everywhere from high street pharmacies to rural grocery stores.
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For centuries, opium was the only powerful painkiller available, and often considered the most important drug in a doctor's bag.
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Later, there were bans on the trafficking of slaves, alcohol during Prohibition, and various drugs like opium, cocaine, and marijuana.
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Border protection agents reportedly found numerous small packages of heroin and opium, which weighed a collective total of 233.5 kilograms.
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Border protection agents reportedly found numerous small packages of heroin and opium, which weighed a collective total of 31.5 kilograms.
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Over the past few years the size of the opium crop has grown remarkably—especially in Taliban-controlled areas (see article).
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Rates of robbery, burglary, and theft showed a similar correlation, as did arrests for possession of opium, cocaine, and their derivatives.
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The team also dug specifically into the 15 genes that produces morphinans, a class of chemicals including opium poppy-derived opiates.
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So yes, although poppy seeds are legal to eat, they can contain enough opium to trigger a positive screening for opiates.
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Opioids — drugs that replicate the pain-reducing properties of opium — include both legal painkillers like morphine and illegal drugs like heroin.
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And anyone who has been can tell you that drugs—from mushrooms, to weed, to opium—are widely available to backpackers.
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Opium production in Afghanistan has increased 43 percent in the past year, according to a new report from the United Nations.
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The most notorious of these accords was forced on China in 1842 by Britain after a war over British opium sales.
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" During their tart exchanges Lenny at one point derides Sidney's fondness for watching sports as "just another opium for the people.
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On top of all that, the 29-year-old actress was recently named the face of YSL Beauty's fragrance Black Opium.
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Before that, China had a near monopoly on what was becoming Britain's drug of choice—frequently bought with profits from opium.
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At the end of the second Opium War it was razed by British and French troops in an orgy of destruction.
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What began as community-based support groups turned, in some cases, into criminal syndicates that ran opium, prostitution, and gambling dens.
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The third broke out over opium distribution, and the fourth was fought because of a defection from one tong to another.
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Today, police corruption is widespread, access to justice remains wildly uneven, and Afghanistan is still the world's leading producer of opium.
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When the Americans had too much Indian opium and bought less, there was a glut of product with nowhere to go.
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All the while, nobles went on to indulge in newer trends like drinking tea, using forks to eat, and smoking opium.
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Myanmar, in particular, is the second-largest producer of opium in the world, responsible for 25 percent of the world's supply.
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In recent years, the indigenous peoples of the mountains range have witnessed how opium poppy plantations have taken over their lands.
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Listening to the music on heavy rotation can help you dive into a musical opium den, which is fine by me.
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The area has long been notorious for opium and heroin, especially the so-called "Golden Triangle" of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
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Nittaya's family struggled to survive from opium farming, and migrated to Myanmar in search of work when she was about 2300.
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The Taliban use the winter for training and the early spring to reap the taxes and other benefits from opium fields.
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The Opium villa has safari-style decor and Bali-inspired architecture, according to its website, as well as a koi pond.
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He didn't really "eat" opium, per se, but took it in the form of laudanum, the narcotic's commonly ingested liquid form.
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The campaign targeting Afghan drug labs began as opium production jumped 87 percent last year to a record high in Afghanistan.
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Ms. Bartsch remained in her opium-den-like quarters at the Chelsea Hotel, while Mr. Barton moved to an apartment nearby.
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Nicholson said the Taliban makes an estimated $200 million annually producing opium, with 400 to 500 drug labs in the country.
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The Taliban earns up to four hundred million dollars a year from growing opium—funds often directed toward attacking US soldiers.
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Yes, the Wild West was high on opium, an ancient (and in some cultures homeopathic) product derived from the poppy plant.
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Memo is a young and healthy farmer who says he would like to grow chili but he grows opium poppies instead.
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Related: The Taliban Is running amok and killing policemen in Afghanistan's opium heartland Pacheco fled, as did many from the community.
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Reuters reported in April that Mexico's army was allowing the United States and the United Nations to observe opium poppy eradication.
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Gutzlaff, for instance, was one of the most talented linguists of his age and he wound up interpreting for opium smugglers.
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In China, the Opium War gradually came to be seen as the beginning of a century of humiliations at Western hands.
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The Taliban was operating 400 to 500 labs across the country to sustain the group's $200 million-a-year opium trade.
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When Li Ao was 2, the family moved to Beijing, where his father took a position in an opium-suppression bureau.
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Since 19903, the Taliban has been supporting the growing of opium, taking a share of each harvest to fund its insurgency.
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The two of them used to get slotted on booze and opium then go out punching cows 'til the early hours.
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In opium, Britain saw a way in, forcing the drug onto the Chinese market against the wishes of the Manchu emperors.
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Dear Diary: Opium by Yves Saint Laurent has long been my signature perfume, and I have gotten many compliments on it.
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In fact, the amount of opium poppy grown in Afghanistan spiraled from 74,000 hectares in 2001 to 328,000 hectares in 2017.
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Other venues Bolt has played since include Sin City on the Gold Coast of Australia, Opium in Barcelona, and Tape, London.
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We extracted opium from the poppy and quickly discovered how to make opiates that are a thousandfold more potent and addicting.
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Much of the $20 billion economy, whose main products, aside from opium, are fruit and carpets, operates informally, paying no taxes.
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This left a legacy of devastating dependency, not only on opium but on the lawless and destructive economy that produced it.
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It's worth remembering that the First Opium War in the early 19th century grew out of a trade deficit being settled.
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Helmand is also the center of the opium poppy trade and the producer of most of Afghanistan's heroin, contributing to corruption.
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Her watercolors of flora, like the strychnine tree and the baby-pink opium poppy, are accompanied with explanations of their properties.
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You're giving away all the smuggling routes and opium and all the things that are enriching the Taliban and fueling the insurgency.
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Brandished "the wickedest man on earth", Crowley earned such as a nickname thanks to his enthusiasm for black magic, opium and sex.
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Jan-Agha Mohammad-Khan, 22, was farming opium and wheat in Uruzgan province until eight months ago when fighting engulfed his hamlet.
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A series of strikes on Sunday destroyed 2500 opium processing labs in Helmand province, according to the Pentagon and the Afghan government.
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However, the harvesting process can cause opium residue to coat the seeds — the same ones we enjoy on our bagels and muffins.
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Critics with right-wing sympathies attacked Cubism, while leftists celebrated its stylistic radicalism as a useful social solvent like opium and hashish.
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That fact was built into a mantra of Western officials in Afghanistan: When security improves, opium will be easier to take down.
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In fact, it was banned by Thailand in 1943 because the government found that its use was cutting into opium tax revenues.
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Beginning with the Opium wars, it recounts the rise of the Communist Party and the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949.
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It resulted in sweeping concessions on trade (including legalisation of the opium traffic) and access for foreigners to China's hitherto closed interior.
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As Dickens put it, opium use could even make the smoker take on "the strange likeness of the Chinaman", including skin colour.
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It was here, in the 19th century, that British ships offloaded their opium onto fast-moving Chinese smuggling boats known as "centipedes".
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Sangin is in a strategic area for the lucrative opium trade, which provides funding for the Taliban, as well as other strongmen.
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Yes, if you had bronchitis as a kid they had one suggestion for you: this mixture that was pretty much just opium.
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In the local villages, opium paste was still being traded by the kilo and there was plenty of money to be made.
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It was called Chinese Opium Den and came out in 1894, setting the scene for what would become an iconic cinematic genre.
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Myanmar and Thailand are part of the Golden Triangle, a region infamous for producing and trafficking opium (Laos is the third country).
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Guerrero, located along Mexico's southwestern Pacific coast, is home to numerous poppy fields used to produce opium, the main ingredient in heroin.
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The Thai government also started to crack down on heroin trafficking routes after the launch of the 1984 nationwide opium eradication campaign.
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It says it has lost many security personnel in skirmishes with drug traffickers in regions bordering Afghanistan, the top world opium supplier.
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This year, he said he collected about 88 pounds of raw opium, compared with about 30 pounds from six acres last year.
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Sometimes, the farmers need to line up the plastic bags of opium they have collected, each weighing about 10 pounds, for inspection.
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" A reader from New Hampshire asked: "Wasn't the imposition of opium on the Chinese by the British just a bit rude also?
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Officials have also witnessed Afghanistan's opium production continuing to rise, despite the U.S. spending $8.7 billion on counternarcotics efforts in the country.
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Starting out as an initiative for reforestation and opium-replacement crops, it now has business units in food, horticulture, tourism and handicrafts.
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They weren't checked by the guards at the doors, so they smuggled in alcohol, cigarettes, weed, hash, opium, anything you can imagine.
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Under current laws, trafficking or trading of more than 5 kg of opium or 30 grams of heroin carry the death penalty.
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They and their splinter groups were thus well-placed to supplement declining opium profits by tightening the screws on local avocado growers.
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Zia's 15-day journey to find his father took him deep into Taliban territory, in the opium poppy belt in the south.
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Then Chief of International Operations Mike Vigil masterminded Operation Containment, meant to prevent the opium produced in Afghanistan from leaving the country.
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When the American invasion swept the Taliban from power several months later, the insurgents resorted to opium like the Mujahideen before them.
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Higgins, the former assistant attaché, sounded optimistic about the law enforcement agency's future in a country where opium production continues to rise.
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Heroin was engineered to address the massive opium and morphine epidemic that swept across the country in the early to mid-1800s.
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Mexico is currently the main provider of the drug to the US, and the third most important opium producer in the world.
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After defeating the enfeebled Qing dynasty in the First Opium War, Britain took over the island and made it a crown colony.
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She found a photograph of her maternal grandmother, a concubine who died of a possibly intentional opium overdose, dressed as a courtesan.
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Another scholar, R. K. Newman, estimated that as many as 21995 million Chinese were dependent on opium and smoked the drug daily.
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The country responsible for growing around three-quarters of the world's opium, as well as mountains of hashish, is diversifying into methamphetamine.
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For years, most of the harvest was smuggled out in the form of bulky opium syrup that was refined in other countries.
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Its decrepit aircraft have crashed, been blacklisted by the American military for smuggling opium and refused entry to Europe for safety deficiencies.
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The airline was briefly blacklisted by the United States military, which said Kam Air's seedy-looking planes were involved in opium smuggling.
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Afghanistan's drug trade has for decades mostly meant opium and heroin; thanks to a native bush, now methamphetamines are on the rise.
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Under the program, known as FAST, squads received military-style training to combat Taliban-linked opium traffickers in the Afghanistan war zone.
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William Jardine, who would co-found a firm that led the opium trade with China, first worked as an EIC ship's surgeon.
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Eastern Iran, which borders Afghanistan — the world's top opium producer — and Pakistan, has long been plagued by clashes with drug smuggling gangs.
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The district, a center of the lucrative opium trade, is strategically situated between the Helmand River and the border with Kandahar Province.
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De Quincey was thirty-six when "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater," his sensational memoir of addiction, was published, anonymously, in 1821.
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Shan State is a hotbed of opium farming, an industry that is controlled by groups fighting for autonomy from the central government.
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Professor Mansfield, a senior fellow at the International Drug Policy Unit at the LSE, has documented the last 23 Afghan opium harvests.
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Hefty, 200-litre steel barrels are filled with opium, water, lime, and ammonium chloride, and then set to boil over wood fires.
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Though the United States has spent $8.5 billion to battle narcotics in Afghanistan, opium production there has reached an all-time high.
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Perhaps better understanding the opium poppy's genome will help scientists in other countries find or engineer an easier way to produce the stuff.
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Given how powerful alcohol and pharmaceutical companies have proven to be, it's not totally unfeasible that coca or opium companies couldn't similarly succeed.
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Poppy fields produce around 450 kilos of opium gum per hectare, meaning cartels have a finite supply of the main ingredient in heroin.
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Myanmar is one of the world's largest producers of illicit drugs, such as opium, heroin and methamphetamines, which are often smuggled into China.
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Shakespeare's works only began to take root in China after Britain defeated the Qing empire in the first Opium War of 1839-42.
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Poppy seeds come from a species of poppy plant called Papaver somniferum (commonly called the opium poppy), which has red and pink flowers.
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As Lucy Inglis recounts in her sweeping new history of opium, the tension between the substance's medicinal virtue and its dangers is ancient.
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In the end, it is almost impossible to pinpoint exactly when Berlioz's personal obsession and opium predilection become the pretext for performance art.
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In the 19th century China lost two wars against Britain that were triggered by the smuggling of opium into China by British traders.
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Authorities have only been able to destroy 355 hectares of opium poppies this year compared to 3,760 hectares in 2015, a 91% decrease.
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In 2017 opium production increased by 65% to 0003,500 tonnes, the highest recorded by the UNODC since it began collecting data in 2000.
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Many of the holiday-makers were probably aware that the Opium Wars had been controversial in Britain and fiercely opposed by some politicians.
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