Taking on opium in Afghanistan means taking on the world's demand for opium.
The increase in opium poppy cultivation is attributed mainly to historically high prices for opium, coupled with insecurity.
The Golden Triangle is a prime source area for opium.
The opium trade, which created a steady demand among Chinese addicts for opium imported by the West, solved this chronic trade imbalance.
Dr. Facchini wants to produce morphine from yeast, replacing the need for opium poppies.
Conclusions: The results support the efficacy and safety of buprenorphine for opium addiction and suggest that an adequate dose of buprenorphine would help to increase the success rate.
Higher doses have opium-like sedative effects used in traditional medicines as a substitute for opium.
Another sensory system (RNA aptamer) for opium alkaloid codeine, a class of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) and metabolite in opium alkaloid biosynthesis pathway, can precisely measure the codeine concentration.
Also, several of our findings point toward a causal role for opium in increasing mortality.
Similar tunnels also serve as conduits for arms.
