World s opium. Medical search. Frequent questions

1. In 2014, 224,000 hectares (865 sq. miles) - or about 0.3% of Afghanistan's landmass - was used for the cultivation of opium poppies. (theglobalist.com)
The UNODC's latest assessment on the Afghan narcotics trade, released in February, says cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan is likely to fall this year compared to the record crops of previous years. (rferl.org)

5. Afghan land devoted to growing opium in 2014 was equal to more than four-fifths the land area of Rhode Island, the smallest U.S. state. (theglobalist.com)
The cultivation of opium poppy remains the only source of income for large numbers of Afghan farmers, and this has prompted the Taliban to be wary of radical plans to eradicate drug production in the country. (news.am)
It also says seven other Afghan provinces are likely to reduce opium-poppy cultivation this year -- including the biggest opium-producing province, Helmand, in the volatile south. (rferl.org)
But officials in neighboring countries say the size and frequency of drug seizures from smugglers near the Afghan border continues to increase -- highlighting the fact that many Afghan farmers who have stopped growing opium poppies are now growing cannabis crops instead. (rferl.org)
Security experts say local Afghan militia commanders who once funded their private armies with profits from the illegal opium and heroin trades still have their smuggling networks in place. (rferl.org)
A recent attack on Tajik counternarcotics officers near Afghanistan's northern border has raised concerns in Dushanbe about the power and boldness of traffickers with ties to Afghan drug lords in the so-called opium-free provinces. (rferl.org)
Afghan call these girls ''loan brides'' and their number is increasing since the opium eradication programme began. (rawa.org)
Afghan children gather raw opium on a poppy field on the outskirts of Jalalabad, April 28, 2015. (businessinsider.com)
As much as 90% of the world's heroin has come from Afghan opium, and the UN Office on Drug and Crime reported that the country "accounted for almost two-thirds of the total area under illicit opium cultivation" in 2015. (businessinsider.com)

Iran is one of the main pathways for opium trafficking from Afghanistan to the rest of the world. (cdc.gov)
Although opium production in Afghanistan declined by 48% in 2015 ( 7 ), Afghanistan still accounted for two thirds of the global fields of illicit opium poppy production, and it has been estimated that the 2015 decline will not affect global heroin markets. (cdc.gov)
2. This land area within Afghanistan dropped by nearly a fifth in 2015 due to a one-year blight in opium growing areas of the south. (theglobalist.com)
6. Even in a bad year of growth, such as 2015, some two-thirds of all worldwide land area under cultivation for opium is located in Afghanistan. (theglobalist.com)
7. Those 865 sq. miles of production also easily allow Afghanistan to be the world's largest producer of illicit opium by volume. (theglobalist.com)
Two-thirds of all worldwide land area under cultivation for opium is located in Afghanistan. (theglobalist.com)
It was not the US invasion that reduced opium land area in Afghanistan in 2001. (theglobalist.com)
The country produced 690 tons of opium last year worth some $359 million, according to official figures - about a fifth of the amount produced in Afghanistan. (time.com)
Afghanistan provided 88% of the world's opium supply in 2005 ( 9 ). (cdc.gov)
Although noninjection use of opium (smoking, vaporization, or oral ingestion) is traditional in Afghanistan, injecting likely represents a new behavior ( 10 ). (cdc.gov)
The coming to power in Afghanistan of representatives of the Taliban has led to a sharp increase in prices for opium and other drugs on the black market in the country, The Times of India reported. (news.am)
According to it, the cost of opium in Afghanistan has tripled since August 15, when the Taliban took control of Kabul. (news.am)
This forced drug buyers in Afghanistan to prepare for an impending cut in opium production, the demand for which has increased, which has led to an increase in domestic prices for it, The Times of India added. (news.am)
In 2000, when the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan, they banned the cultivation of opium poppy as prohibited by Islam and practically destroyed the crops of this crop. (news.am)
After the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 by an international coalition led by the United States, the cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan resumed and grew from year to year. (news.am)
As a result, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says, Afghanistan is now the world's largest producer of two illegal drugs -- heroin from opium poppies and cannabis. (rferl.org)
That means opium cultivation in Afghanistan is now overwhelmingly concentrated within the seven most unstable provinces in the south and southwest. (rferl.org)
In Afghanistan, most of the attention is on opium,' Kemp says. (rferl.org)
But Afghanistan is now one of the biggest, if not the biggest, producer of cannabis in the world. (rferl.org)
Reports from RFE/RL correspondents in northern Afghanistan suggest that many farmers who used to grow opium poppies have responded to the pressure of poppy eradication programs by growing cannabis instead. (rferl.org)
But now, instead of sneaking relatively small packages of opium or heroin out of Afghanistan, drug traffickers increasingly smuggle larger shipments of hashish, made from cannabis. (rferl.org)
Opium production in Afghanistan is booming despite repeated attempts by the Western world to stop production. (thedailyposts.net)
He says opium has flowed from Afghanistan in recent years because members of the former US-backed government were themselves involved in the opium trade. (thedailyposts.net)
Afghanistan remains the world's largest cultivator of opium, accounting for approximately 86% of the world's opium poppy cultivation. (medscape.com)
While law enforcers predict yet another record opium harvest in Afghanistan this spring, the magazine says most farmers are struggling to survive. (rawa.org)
Opium production in Afghanistan has spiked to one of the highest levels registered since the UN began keeping track in 1994, the international body said earlier this month. (businessinsider.com)
The UNODC will issue its latest annual report on opium-poppy cultivation in Afghanistan later this month, but "Unfortunately, preliminary results suggest that illicit cultivation has increased well above 200,000 hectares (494,000 acres)," UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said in the prepared text of a speech on Afghanistan. (businessinsider.com)
Fedotov did not offer a reason for the resurgence of opium production in Afghanistan, but the UNODC did report in 2015 that there was a " high correlation " between the country's security situation and opium production. (businessinsider.com)

The word meconium (derived from the Greek for "opium-like", but now used to refer to newborn stools) historically referred to related, weaker preparations made from other parts of the opium poppy or different species of poppies. (wikipedia.org)
A figure of the Minoan "goddess of the narcotics", wearing a crown of three opium poppies, c. 1300 BCE, was recovered from the Sanctuary of Gazi, Crete, together with a simple smoking apparatus. (wikipedia.org)
During his last term in power, the Taliban banned the cultivation of poppies for the production of opium and the Afghans obeyed. (thedailyposts.net)

However, the rise in prices for them is primarily attributed by opium producers and its buyers to the statement in August by the Taliban representative that the Taliban intend to start fighting drug trafficking in the country with international support. (news.am)
Now the Taliban say a new ban is underway, but to maintain it they need the help of the outside world. (thedailyposts.net)
There will be less opium in the world," said Khairullah Shinwari, an activist and supporter of the Taliban. (thedailyposts.net)
Aid, which many countries withdrew after the Taliban took power, is a prerequisite for getting rid of opium cultivation, he says. (thedailyposts.net)
Conditions on the ground there suggest that efforts by the US and its allies to oust the Taliban and eliminate opium production have been ineffective. (businessinsider.com)
Taliban and opium poppy: should we expect a ban on cultivation? (talkingdrugs.org)

As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third-largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world and had one of the highest opium addiction rates. (unodc.org)

After the survey and very recently in 2022, the 'War on Drugs 2.0' was started and intensified by destroying opium poppy fields in the hills of Chandel, Churachandpur, Kangpokpi, and Tenoupal Districts. (kanglaonline.com)

Opium-poppy eradication has been hailed as a success in much of Afghanistan's north and east, allowing counternarcotics officials to declare 18 provinces there as 'poppy-free' despite record opium cultivation in the south and southwest. (rferl.org)
There's been a lot of focus on the opium cultivation -- and therefore opium eradication or finding alternatives to opium,' Kemp says. (rferl.org)
Eradication of opium rose 40%, to 9,291 acres, last year, according to UNODC data cited by Reuters. (businessinsider.com)

According to the UN, in 2020 the country produced 6,300 tons of opium. (news.am)

The intersections between poverty, drugs and peace will be explored in a side event sponsored by Myanmar on the opium-poppy situation in Shan state," he said. (time.com)
What's the role and position of women in opium cultivation areas in Myanmar? (druglawreform.info)

Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade. (wikipedia.org)
Injection drug use has become increasingly common in Central and South Asia, fostered by readily available opium and heroin ( 1 , 2 ). (cdc.gov)
Heroin (diacetylmorphine) is a semisynthetic narcotic derived from the opium poppy Papaver somniferum . (medscape.com)
In interviews with drug-war figures ranging from opium farmers to U.S. officials, Cowell unravels the complex political, economic and diplomatic web that surrounds the heroin business. (wgbh.org)

Opium is an important cause of lead poisoning in countries with a high prevalence of opium addiction ( 4 , 6 ), and lead-contaminated opium has previously been reported in Iran ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
According to the World Health Organiza- the prevalence and risk factors for LBW in tion (WHO) definition, infants with birth different areas [2]. (who.int)
Background and objectives: We undertook this study to estimate the number of cancer cases that could be prevented through decreasing the prevalence of opium use by 2035 in Iran, where 40% of the world opium is consumed. (who.int)

Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. (wikipedia.org)

2023). The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (who.int)
2023). The World Health Organization Reporting System for Lung Cytopathology. (who.int)

The Egyptians cultivated opium thebaicum in famous poppy fields around 1300 BCE. (wikipedia.org)

Widespread medical use of unprocessed opium continued through the American Civil War before giving way to morphine and its successors, which could be injected at a precisely controlled dosage. (wikipedia.org)
Ang pinaka-aktibong sangkap sa opium ay ang morphine-ipinangalan mula kay Morpheus, ang diyos ng mga pangarap ng mga Griyego. (drugfreeworld.ph)
Ang morphine ay unang kinuha mula sa opium sa isang purong anyo noong unang banda ng ika-19 siglo. (drugfreeworld.ph)
Ang Morphine, ang pinaka-aktibong substansya sa opium, ay isang napakalakas na painkiller na nakalulong sa maraming sundalo sa Digmaang Sibil ng Estados Unidos. (drugfreeworld.ph)
Méthodes recommandées pour l' identification de l' opium et de la morphine brute : manuel à l' usage des laboratoires nationaux de stupéfiants. (who.int)

These days the amount ranges from US$3000 or so in poorer places like Laghman and Nangarhar to US$8000 or more in Helmand, Afghanistan's No 1 opium-growing province. (rawa.org)

Although Lao PDR had significantly eliminated opium poppy cultivation by 2007, the country has seen a recent resurgence in opium poppy cultivation, endangering the progress made. (unodc.org)

From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in the country was reduced by 93 per cent and opium addiction by 68 per cent, thanks to the Government's strong commitment. (unodc.org)

According to the World Health Organization, tolerable weekly intake of lead is 25 μ g/kg body weight ( 2 ) (approximately 0.0018 g per week for a 70-kg [154-lb] adult). (cdc.gov)
2022). The World Health Organization Reporting System for Pancreaticobiliary Cytopathology. (who.int)
2018). A common classification framework for neuroendocrine neoplasms: an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organization (WHO) expert consensus proposal. (who.int)

To help farmers pursue alternative sustainable livelihoods projects as opposed to opium poppy cultivation, UNODC is working in six South Asia countries, including Lao, PDR. (unodc.org)

At the same time we have focused too much on the Opium War as the beginning of a story - of China's decline, of Western domination. (telegraph.co.uk)

For the past six decades, farmers in Burma's border regions have been caught up in a brutal civil war - the longest running anywhere in the world, and one that has driven tens of thousands of civilians to flee to neighboring Thailand or to ramshackle internally-displaced-persons (IDP) camps by the border. (time.com)
Last year, poppy cultivation was reported in 49 out of 55 townships in Burma's restive Shan state, responsible for 90% of the national harvest, with farmers expecting around $520 per kg of "farm-gate fresh opium. (time.com)
But UN officials tell RFE/RL that many former opium farmers in those poppy-free areas have switched to another lucrative and illegal drug crop: cannabis. (rferl.org)
2 August 2012 - It is a challenge to wean farmers off opium poppy cultivation in Lao People's Democratic Republic, once part of the Golden Triangle of South-East Asia. (unodc.org)
In 2005, it became illegal to cultivate opium poppy in the country, and while this was a move to reduce the production of opium, it left many farmers without the means to make a living. (unodc.org)
Without an alternative source of income, many of these farmers were at high risk of reverting to opium poppy cultivation. (unodc.org)
Termed as "opium brides", the daughters of poor poppy farmers are often given to drug traffickers if their fathers are unable to pay the loan taken for growing the illicit crop because of the official action. (rawa.org)

Methods: The projection of the population attributable fraction (PAF) of cancers due to opium use was calculated using four data sources including (i) national cancer. (who.int)

Linn Blohm of Sweden speaks with officials at the IHF Women's World Championship. (thedailyposts.net)
The officials believed that their ideas were superior, and they chose to focus on the young, educating them with the guiding principle, "We have a scientific world view which is superior to all other religions and beliefs. (wels.net)

So we do have concerns that although some provinces are becoming opium free, they are not completely drug-free because they are growing cannabis. (rferl.org)

This Thursday, October 10, 2019 join Winifred as she sits down with Grammy winner M.B. Gordy of the band, Opium Moon. (voiceamerica.com)

The 16 acres of the World Trade Center sight was nothing but an old Washington Market. (publicradio.org)

Tablets found at Nippur, a Sumerian spiritual center south of Baghdad, described the collection of poppy juice in the morning and its use in production of opium. (wikipedia.org)
Opium production continued under the Babylonians and Egyptians. (wikipedia.org)
Moreover, many studies have shown opium production to be more pervasive in government territory than in that held by the rebels, with the authorities turning a blind eye to ensure the acquiescence of these heavily armed militias. (time.com)
The project in Oudomxay Province takes a holistic approach and has been designed to increase the production of legal crops, create income generating activities, develop small farmer associations and cooperatives and prevent opium production and consumption. (unodc.org)

This study aims to approach the world of young addicts in a Western city of Nicaragua to explore and better understand their reality. (bvsalud.org)

China is believed to have more narcotics regulations than any other country in the world, with more than 500 laws and guidelines implemented at various levels of government over different periods of time. (aljazeera.com)

Amid this instability, opium represents a high-yield, compact and high-value cash crop that can be easily transported and traded for food, medicine and even education. (time.com)
Rebels pay for weapons by taxing the poppy crop, by refining opium (or by taxing the activities of refiners) and by ensuring safe delivery to international traffickers. (time.com)

If, as in this analysis, contaminated opium contains 3.55 mg lead per gram, a user consuming 10 g of opium per day could be ingesting approximately 0.036 g of lead per day, approximately 20% more than that consumed by the Ayurvedic medicine users who experienced lead toxicity. (cdc.gov)
Smugglers are now paying local opium producers $ 100 per kilogram, and on the black market in Europe the price of this drug exceeds $ 50 per gram. (news.am)
So we where breaking our shit up and smoking the 2 bowls when this dude 'A' said he had about a gram or two of opium, so the first blunt we rolled up was like 4 grams of weed and 1 1/2 grams of opium, but before we got to smoking we rolled another blunt which was about the same amount of weed without any opium. (erowid.org)

This report explains the Types of drugs, Opium poppy cultivation and its geographical affinity, Drug lords and Armed Groups, Drug Trade Value & Trafficking Routes, Geopolitical perspective and anti-India elements, and Conclusion. (kanglaonline.com)

In a report in its upcoming issue, Newsweek takes the case of an illiterate poor farmer in Laghman Province who borrowed US$ 2000 from a local traffickers promising to pay back with 24 kilos of opium at harvest time. (rawa.org)
This will be our darkest year since 2000," says Baz Mohammad, 65-year old former opium farmer in Nangarhar was quoted as saying. (rawa.org)

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world. (wgbh.org)

Opium is mentioned in the most important medical texts of the ancient and medieval world, including the Ebers Papyrus and the writings of Dioscorides, Galen, and Avicenna. (wikipedia.org)

If you recall, the Opium Group laid a major egg at Mansion, a colossal failure of an attempt to bring the Miami-style nightclub scene to W. 27th Street. (eater.com)
The first was a prayer of apology to the god of the sea, for its imminent pollution by a million kilograms of mainly British opium: carried, ball by ball, out onto planks laid across deep pools, stomped into chalky powder, then kicked into the water. (telegraph.co.uk)

Her music has been played in almost every country in the world. (voiceamerica.com)

On 22.2.22 (22 February 2022), the Museum of the Future - dubbed as the "most beautiful building on Earth" and Dubai's latest iconic landmark officially opened its doors to the world on Tuesday, with a message of hope and to serve as a hub in shaping a better future for mankind. (gulfnews.com)

Stephen Scott and the Bowed Piano Ensemble recorded live at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center on October 25, 2000. (publicradio.org)

The struggle to prepare his squad for the start of the 2026 World Cup qualification games is his secondary priority. (yahoo.com)
The struggle against religion is therefore indirectly a fight against the world of which religion is the spiritual aroma . (marxists.org)

his business, which included a monopoly of the opium-trade, extended as far as Yokohama, Nagasaki, and other cities in Japan. (lukeford.net)
However, with the general expansion of world trade and overall increase in the size of the world economy, there was simply not enough gold to underwrite the amount of money required to sustain world trade. (marxists.org)
To mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, we bring you a special re-broadcast of a Peabody-award winning documentary that chronicles the sounds and voices of the World Trade Center and its surrounding neighborhood. (publicradio.org)
And when the World Trade Center buildings were going up, my dad told me, "When those are finished and the race between the two buildings is over, we're going to go up on the top. (publicradio.org)
Reader's Digest called the World Trade Center, when we announced it, "The largest building project since the Egyptian Pyramids. (publicradio.org)
I'm president of the World Trade Centers Association. (publicradio.org)
Initially, I was the director of The Word Trade Center of New York, responsible for planning, designing and operating and constructing the World Trade Center. (publicradio.org)
Nearly all the recordings and audio artifacts you will hear this hour were recorded over the last 70 years at the World Trade Center and surrounding neighborhoods. (publicradio.org)
And nowhere is that more powerful than the neighborhood around the World Trade Center. (publicradio.org)
And you've got an 18th century church like St. Paul's, the African-American burial ground and what we think of now as the World Trade Center neighborhood was a largely maritime neighborhood, wharves going down the west side practically to the battery. (publicradio.org)

World Cancer Report: Cancer Research for Cancer Prevention. (who.int)

Opium was used with poison hemlock to put people quickly and painlessly to death. (wikipedia.org)
Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the United States, sports creates the necessary "fantasy world" required to shield people from understanding, organizing, and attempting to "influence the real world. (worldnewstrust.com)
For these "intellectualists," it is convenient to perceive all the people in the world as one "mass," unable to think or act outside the role assigned for them by the "system. (worldnewstrust.com)
An example that immediately comes to mind within the Western context is the solidarity displayed by fans of the Scottish Celtic FC team towards the Palestinian people and other national struggles around the world. (worldnewstrust.com)
This is a people that wants to be heard and seen by the rest of the world, wants to live normally like everyone else, so people care about their national team," Shalabi told AP. (yahoo.com)
Similarly, religion has metamorphosed from the popular Marxist perception as "the opium of the people" to a multi-faceted institution, addressing not only the spiritual but also other wide-ranging social, political, cultural, economic and other needs. (researchgate.net)
It is the opium of the people. (marxists.org)
Religion is the opium of the people. (wels.net)
There is also likely to be poor compliance en for those sentenced for financial crimes with TB treatment or incomplete treatment or drug crimes, and for life prisoners, young if prisoners are released before treatment people (18-25 years), military prisoners and has finished, encouraging the spread of so on. (who.int)

however, the high levels of lead that might be ingested through opium use have the potential to cause substantial lead toxicity, as is currently being reported in Iran ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
Clinicians should be aware that persons using opium products that appear to have been smuggled through Iran could be at risk for lead poisoning. (cdc.gov)

World 6-5 is that infamous cave level wherein you have to get a Raccoon Leaf ( if you don't already have 1 ), grab a Koopa shell, & fly up into an alcove & throw the shell to kill some Nipper Plants blocking the way to the pipe to the end o' the level. (mezunian.com)
Security personnel destroying opium plants cultivated in Pipara Sagaiya Tol of Pathara Budharam VDC-9 of Rautahat district. (thehimalayantimes.com)
Around 1,400 opium plants have been destroyed by security personnel in Ilam recently. (thehimalayantimes.com)
Similarly, police have also destroyed 800 opium plants cultivated by Bal Bihari Kafle (58) of the same area. (thehimalayantimes.com)

That club was re-branded as M2 and the Opium Group headed back down south with their tail between their legs. (eater.com)
I just went on for hours it seemed, but it was actually only like a minute cuz then the opium blunt came back to me, so I hit it like 3 times. (erowid.org)

In recent developments, British occupation forces have promoted opium cultivation through paid radio advertisements. (rawa.org)

So when we finished we went inside and sparked them up, I had only smoked opium like 10-20 times before this so I wasn't all that experienced so when I hit the blunt with the opium real hard it hit me quick, all of a sudden I was the only one in the room (so it seemed). (erowid.org)
God being everything, the real world and man are nothing. (marxists.org)

The Opium War", he writes, "was not part of some long-term British imperial plan for China but rather a sudden departure from decades, if not centuries, of generally peaceful and respectful precedent. (telegraph.co.uk)
Allison depicts plausible scenarios of how conflicts between these two superpowers could break out: disputes over Taiwan or the South China Sea, or an accidental provocation by a third party - it was the assassination of an Austrian archduke by a Serbian terrorist that triggered the first world war - or, less likely, a quarrel related to economic competition. (scmp.com)

Encouragingly, areas where sustainable alternative development has been provided, such as Oudomxay Province, have not experienced an increase in opium poppy cultivation. (unodc.org)

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