Excavations at an ancient burial pit in Israel discovered the world’s earliest evidence of drug use, experts say. The hundreds of burials unearthed in Tel Yehud date to the 13th century BC, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Archaeologists excavating outside of Tel Aviv, Israel have ...

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Men, women and children sit listlessly on the unkempt lawn of a hospital for drug addicts in this northern Afghan city. Inside, the waiting area is packed with women clad ...

BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...

Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, speaks at a press conference in Kabul on Aug. 26MASSOUD HOSSAINI / AFP / Getty If international drug- and law-enforcement officials are ...

ZHARI, Afghanistan -- It's the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan - the country's intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall as ...

U.S. officials are exploring ways to prevent a surge in opium cultivation in Afghanistan, once the world's leading producer, now that the Taliban's control is crumbling. The challenge is persuading ...

The largest study on opium use and outcomes after bypass surgery has found that - in contrast to widely held beliefs - it is linked with more deaths and heart attacks. The largest study on opium use ...

Police in North Carolina discovered a field of opium poppies worth an estimated $500 million after the man growing them assumed that officers had already uncovered the operation and offered a ...

It takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist. The milky sap of the poppy flower has taken so many forms across so many centuries that its allure feels like a trap, a chasing of ...

Burial pits in Tel Yehud, Israel, contained pottery vessels with remnants of opium, experts say, in the world’s oldest evidence of drug use. Photo from Assaf Peretz and the Israel Antiquities ...