Lao police seized more than 14 million methamphetamine tablets during raids on two houses in a village in the notorious crime-ridden Golden Triangle area of Bokeo province and arrested two suspects, police in the northeastern province told Radio Free Asia.
Decriminalizing small amounts of hard drugs is one novel approach that a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest is trying to combat opioid abuse.
According to the United Nations, Afghanistan provides 80% of the world’s opium. Millions of people in Afghanistan are affected by drug abuse and addiction
In Afghanistan, the poppy grows wild and has long been the country’s most profitable cash crop. However, opium made from poppy has a competitor in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s position as the world’s biggest producer of opium is one of the most persistent issues it faces. Afghanistan’s economy and culture are linked with growing, cultivating, and selling the by-products of the indigenous poppy plant
Last month’s arrest of one of Asia’s most wanted men – Tse Chi Lop – may have dented Southeast Asia’s multibillion dollar drug trade
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, federal agents on the U.S. borders, at ports and in postal facilities are not letting up their guard against another dangerous killer – the artificial opioid, fentanyl. It’s cheaper and up to 100 times more powerful than heroin and it’s killing tens of thousands of American annual
According to some estimates,there are about 40,000-50,000 drug addicts in Manipur of whom nearly half of them are injecting drug users (IDU)