PRESENTER:'Here in this room in Nanking, 'they negotiated the first of what the Chinese ... The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British ...

opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War of 1839-42. In the first half of the 19th century, the British government faced an economic problem.

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

The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S ... the deadline was extended—giving some farmers enough time to first harvest the opium, then collect their check from ISAF.

The appointment of a ‘fentanyl czar’ signals that the War on Drugs is back. But the criminalization of drug use has failed ...

In the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the first Opium War, a series of natural catastrophes occurred across China resulting in famine, peasant uprisings and rebellions. Understandably ...

However, the illegal fentanyl pipeline has switched from direct export into the U.S. to Mexico, where fentanyl is manufactured and then smuggled into the U.S. While synthetic opioids like fentanyl are ...

While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War. In his new history, Amitav Ghosh ...