Heroin, one of the world’s most notorious narcotics, has a complex history that begins with the opium poppy. For thousands of years, people used the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) for its ...

The world has a shared interest in helping Afghan farmers move on from poppy. But time and again, it has abandoned them and the young Afghans killed by the poisonous harvest to their fate.

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Scopolamine, more chillingly known as "devil's breath," is a drug with a dual identity. In medicine, it's used to prevent ...

Ranchi: State rural development and Panchayati Raj minister Dipika Pandey Singh launched resistjharkhand.gov.in, a website ...

Suspects named police officers during interrogations in a major opium trafficking case, but none were charged, according to an investigation by Buro.

Poppy seeds — a staple on bagels and in pastries — are at the center of a stunning public health scare that has already cost lives, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed on Tuesday, ...

CHANDIGARH: Authorities in Haryana have uncovered illegal poppy cultivation on university campuses, with 400 poppy plants found at a private university in Rai, Sonepat, leading to the arrest of a ...

Sonepat police have arrested a gardener from the World University of Design in Rai after discovering over 400 poppy plants cultivated alongside flowers on the campus. The accused gardener in ...

Poppy plants are used to synthesize drugs like heroin and morphine, but their seeds are available commercially in most countries. So can those seeds get you high? (Image credit: photomi7ch via Alamy) ...

Poppy seeds—which come from the same plant used to make heroin—are so notorious for causing positives for opiates that last year the Department of Defense directed service members to stop ...

Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels and Zantac. Yet newborns are taken from parents based on the results.