The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from ...

Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion's international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine.

In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump imposing a 10% levy against China and pressing a 30-day pause on proposed tariffs ...

New synthetic opioids (NSOs) are one of the fastest-growing groups of new psychoactive substances around the world ...

Leading scientist Rao Yi argues that the significance of the tech’s challenge to US dominance lies in ‘how surprising it was to the world’.

Unlike opium, nitazenes and other synthetic opioids can be produced anywhere in the world using precursor chemicals that are often uncontrolled.

In the early hours of September 14 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. The men ...

Iowa, published a list of USAID funding projects over the years, including pottery classes in Morocco and a version of ...

KABUL, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police have apprehended nine alleged drug smugglers and discovered more than 40 kg of illegal drugs and objects used in manufacturing heroin from their possessions, ...

Unseen photos which provide a rare insight into the brutal realities of 1900s Shanghai have come to light after being ...

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?