Opium
The milky juice derived from the un-ripe seed capsules of the poppy plant Papaver somniferum is called opium. This material, which dries to a brownish gum contains a large number of alkaloid com...
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The unripe seed capsules of the poppy plant (Papaver somniferum) produce a milky juice called opium. The opium poppy has white or blue-purple flowers and is widely grown in Asia, India, and Turk...
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The sap of the poppy plant Papaver somniferum was used as a medicinal in China as early as the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE). By 1700 it was being smoked or eaten recreationally in Java, and ...
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OFFICIAL NAMES: Opium, laudanum, paregoric, Dover's powder
STREET NAMES: Big O, black stuff, block, gum, hop/hops, ah-pen-yen, Aunti, Aunti Emma, black, black pill, chandoo/chandu, Chines...
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Opium is a drug that is derived from poppy juice. Its pain-relieving qualities have been known since ancient times. Opium was used by prehistoric inhabitants of what is now Switzerland, by ancie...
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What Kind of Drug Is It?
Opium is the sticky white sap that flows from ripening seed pods of the Papaver somniferum plant. The plant's Latin name means "poppy" (Papaver) &#x...
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In the following essay, Lefebure explores the experimentations of the English Romantics with opium.
The Romantics experimented with many drugs, within the respective contexts of pharmacy and pictur...
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A U.N. report released Tuesday showed that the "runaway train of drug addiction" has slowed, with estimated levels of global use holding steady for the third year in a row. Afghanistan's opium prod...
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Afghanistan produced dramatically more opium in 2006, increasing its yield by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier and pushing global opium production to a new record high, a U.N. report said Tues...
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NATO said Wednesday that it has withdrawn a radio message telling Afghan farmers that its troops will not destroy their opium fields, following complaints that the alliance appeared to condone the ...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Chang Shi-fu, better known as Khun Sa, died in his
Yangon home after suffering from various diseases including high
blood pressure and diabete...
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The world needs to invest more than $2 billion in irrigation, roads and other rural development to wean Afghanistan off booming opium cultivation, a development bank report said Tuesday.The report,...
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Anguish creased the weathered face of the opium farmer as a U.S.-trained eradication team swept through his farm fields in this southern Afghan village.With helicopters buzzing overhead, dozens of ...
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Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar rose alarmingly in 2006 after six years of dramatic declines, driven in part by corruption and the lack of government control in areas where insurgent groups oper...
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New York (dpa) - Myanmar, one of the three Southeast Asian nations
that form the Golden Triangle, may revive opium cultivation after
years of drastic decline due to effectiv...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Instability, poor law enforcement and corruption
have paved the way for a 29-per-cent jump in opium poppy cultivation
in Myanmar this year, United Nations ex...
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KABUL, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Afghanistan, the world's biggest
opium producer, is set for another bumper crop in 2008,
providing a windfall for the Taliban who tax farmers to finance
their fight agains...
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Molly Lefebure
UN report: Afghan opium production rises
