Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where there's smoke: a 19th-century engraving of opium addicts - Archive Collection / Alamy Stock Photo There are rumours that ...

(AP) One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok’s Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching stomach pains ...

Heroin and Fentanyl. Two names that echo through the darkest corners of the opioid crisis. Both are deadly. One is cheaper, stronger, and easier to make, changing the drug game forever. In the new ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prescribing heroin to chronic addicts may be politically sensitive, but it is more effective than the substitute methadone at keeping drug abusers in treatment programmes, British ...

“An object of mingled horror and pity…with yellow pasty face, drooping lids and pin-point pupils…the wreck and ruin of a noble man,” he was a slave to this “burning poison,” writes Dr. Watson, of ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Afghanistan-grown poppies fuel a $65 billion heroin and opium market that feeds 15 million addicts, with Europe, Russia and Iran consuming half the supply, a U.N. report ...

KABUL -- The first days were so painful that Mina Gul could barely sit upright. Thin and lanky with wide brown eyes, she rubbed the back of her neck ceaselessly with fingers stained reddish black by ...