We don't use the 50 cents to buy soap to clean our clothes," explains Raihan, Beg's daughter and the mother of the 1-year-old. ... Like opium, heroin in Afghanistan is biting off whole families.

An investigation was launched yesterday after customs seized five kilograms of opium-soaked clothing valued at HK$100,000 at the airport's express cargo terminal on Monday. The 12 garments were in ...

Customs officers seized 12 items of clothing soaked with $100,000-worth of opium at Hong Kong airport's express cargo terminal yesterday. Officers inspected a parcel declared as "cotton woven dresses" ...

DUBAI — The Dubai Customs has seized 3kg of opium hidden inside two separate parcels of winter coats and kids’ clothes coming from an Arab country and heading to Can ...

HAINS MEDITATED SUICIDE.; Enough Opium in His Clothes to Kill Several Men -- Search Disclosed It. Share full article. May 20, 1909. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Drugs like opium, meth and hashish remain the Taliban's largest single source of income and have a "destabilizing and corrupting effect" in Afghanistan, U.N. officials tell CBS News.

The cultivation of opium had been trending downward in recent years before the military took control of the government in 2021. Production estimates hit a bottom of 400 metric tons (440 tons) in 2020.

Item 1 of 5 Vessels that contained opium in the 14th century BC, when it was used by Canaanites as an offering for the dead, according to a study by the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv ...

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan jumped 32% during 2022 despite the ruling Taliban regime's ban on narcotics, according to an annual report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it but remains a ...