KABUL (Reuters) - Anita lifted the sky-blue burqa from her face, revealing glazed eyes and cracked lips from years of smoking opium, and touched her saggy belly, still round from giving birth to her ...

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(AP) One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok’s Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching stomach pains ...

Opium is a highly addictive drug. It’s made from juice extracted from the unripe seed pods of opium poppy plants (the scientific name is Papaver somniferum). Opium is used to make a class of drugs ...

Columbus Day almost killed me. I woke up avalanched under a junkyard of pain, my body a trap of torn nerves and trashed organs. An oily rash of sweat had soaked through my pillow and into the mattress ...

For centuries, Afghans in impoverished rural areas have used opium to relieve pain and induce sleep. Now, a severe shortage of medication fueled by a health-care crisis has forced Afghans to resort to ...

JEDDAH — The number of women addicts seeking treatment is on the rise with Al-Amal Hospital in Jeddah reporting that an average of six new women addicts are seeking treatment at the hospital each day.