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First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Graedons' Pharmacy: Can acupuncture lower blood pressure?

Search for DealsSearch local inventory, coupons and morePowered byMost Popular StoriesBy JOE AND TERESA GRAEDON | peoplespharmacy.comQ: My doctor recently prescribed atenolol for high blood pressure. The day after I started on atenolol, I felt ill. When ... [Published Bradenton Herald - May 21 2013]

Entities: Turmeric, Anticoagulant, California Poppy

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Rubber factories in Laos encounter export problem with China

Rubber processing factories in Lao province of Oudomxay are facing unexpected problems because China is not allowing the import of rubber from Laos at the moment, causing large amounts of the material to remain in stock.Sino-Lao Rubber Company Director ... [Published Asia News Network - May 21 2013]

Entities: Laos, China, Narcotic, Opium poppy

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Grim fight on drug smuggling for nation

Drugs smuggled from abroad, including Southeast Asia and some Central and South Asian countries, are the main sources of underground drug use across China, according to a senior anti-drug official from the Ministry of Public Security."Despite great efforts ... [Published China.org.cn - May 21 2013]

Entities: Drug Smuggling, Heroin (Diacetylmorphine), Smuggling, Golden Triangle Industries Inc, Drugs

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Are California Poppies Habit-Forming?

Was this information helpful? (0 votes)What do you think? Click the stars to vote!If you have more to say, post a comment below!Q. I bought a bottle of herbal sleep medicine. The reviews say this product does help people sleep.I wonder, though, if these ... [Published Peoples Pharmacy - May 20 2013]

Entities: California Poppy, valerian, Opium poppy, sedative drug

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

May 16, 2013 New Counternarcotics Strategy!

The Ministry of Counternarcotics has for the first time emphasized on the need for will to go after bigwig drug smugglers across the country. In a press conference on Wednesday, Minister Zarar Muqbil said several drug smugglers were arrested during last ... [Published Daily Outlook - May 16 2013]

Entities: Cultivation, Drugs, Afghanistan

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Taliban

Seven Years in Afghanistan: From W...

Seven years ago today the U.S. began the assault on Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban regime and produced the present mess. Abetted by U.S. bombing and commando operations, the Northern Alliance took Kabul on November 13, 2001. This was the initial ... [Published Bulatlat.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Taliban, Afghanistan, United States, Zalmay Khalilzad

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

India is biggest heroin consumer in South Asia

A United Nations report last year revealed that India was the biggest consumer of heroin in South Asia with some 17 tonnes of the 40 tonnes produced in South Asia being used within the country.According to the World Drug Report 2011 of the UN Office on ... [Published Asia News Network - May 16 2013]

Entities: Heroin (Diacetylmorphine), India, Drugs, Opium

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Regional pledge to stem illegal drug trade

Myanmar and five of its regional partners vowed on May 9 to boost cooperation in the fight against illegal drugs, which they warned posed a “significant threat” to the region.Deputy police chief General Zaw Win speaks at a ceremony on May 6. (Aung Htay ... [Published Myanmar Times - May 13 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Myanmar/Burma, Opium poppy, Cultivation

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Coca growing in Sri Lanka

font size decrease font size increase font sizeRate this story(0 votes)The recent involuntary [?] introduction of the coca plant to home gardens reminded me of an earlier attempt by a British Assistant Government Agent to cultivate the opium poppy ... [Published The Nation.lk - May 12 2013]

Entities: Sri Lanka, Hambantota (Sri Lanka), Cultivation

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 2 reports

Ambassador’s Notebook: The Growing Threat From Afghanistan

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan and Afghanistans Ministry of Counter Narcotics presented a report on opium production in the country in 2013.The report indicated that opium poppy cultivation in the country has been on the rise ... [Published RIA Novosti - May 08 2013]

Entities: Afghanistan, Drugs, Cultivation, Opium

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Opium poppy growers hope to expand into Victoria

Two of Australia's biggest opiate producers are hoping to grow poppies commercially in Victoria as soon as next year, to meet growing demand for painkillers.TPI Enterprises and global drug maker GlaxoSmithKline are pushing the state government to bring ... [Published Melbourne Age - May 04 2013]

Entities: Opium poppy, opiate, Steve Morris

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

The sleep-inducing poppy

The opium poppy.We are used to seeing large-flowered red poppies growing densely in fields. They sometimes grow in such profusion that fields resemble a red carpet.The opium poppy, on the other hand, grows singly but its large beautiful flowers stand ... [Published Times of Malta - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Opium poppy, Species, Papaver

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"A large quantity of heroin produced in these areas is usually smuggled to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, and transferred to Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia and Vietnam, and then into Guangdong province by plane " Liu said

Grim fight on drug smuggling for nation [Published China.org.cn - May 21 2013]

"We need to cooperate with judicial authorities in other countries to identify foreign suspects, and liaise on evidence-collecting abroad" he said

Grim fight on drug smuggling for nation [Published CHINAdaily - May 20 2013]

...it means the drug can be snorted instead of injected, a fact Kasprzyk said eliminates the stigma associated with heroin for many first-time users. "Now you've got a lot of middle-income suburban kids who don't want to inject it and so they snort it" he said. With prescription opioids more prevalent and cheaper, and with stronger heroin on the streets, Kasprzak said a perfect storm was brewing for...

Down the rabbit hole [Published Tonawanda News - May 19 2013]

The province includes women addicts. "I became an addict four years back. I was using tablets for two years and after that I started using heroin; now I don't have even one Afghani to buy medicine" a woman addict told TOLOnews

Information Minister Refuses Smuggling Accusations [Published Afghanistan News Center - May 18 2013]

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India is biggest heroin consumer in South Asia [Published Asia News Network - May 16 2013]
Halfhearted poppy eradication program in Afghan... [Published GlobalPost - May 15 2013]
A slide into abuse that enthralls, ravages addicts [Published Recorder.com - May 14 2013]
Despite drug war, heroin use is growing in the ... [Published Pravda - May 14 2013]
Regional pledge to stem illegal drug trade [Published Myanmar Times - May 13 2013]
Coca growing in Sri Lanka [Published The Nation.lk - May 12 2013]
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Ambassador’s Notebook: The Growing Threat From ... [Published RIA Novosti - May 08 2013]
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012, May... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 07 2013]
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Opium poppy growers hope to expand into Victoria [Published Melbourne Age - May 04 2013]
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Violence Spirals Out of Control in Northern Sin... [Published Borderland Beat - May 06 2013] Posted in Borderland Beat Forum by Siskiyou_Kid Violence spirals out of control in Northern Sinaloa as a new group asserts control This narcomanta was left in a Jeep Cherokee with the bodies of 6 victims who were kidnapped on April 8 Written by Adán ...
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Counterinsurgency, Counternarcotics, and Illici... [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - Apr 09 2013] Editor's note: The following excerpt introduces a book chapter produced by Vanda Felbab-Brown for the Center for Complex Operations volume, Convergence: Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization , published in April 2013. ...
Still Knee-Deep In Poppy: The Evolution of Coun... [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - Mar 26 2013] Editor’s note: The following excerpt introduces a book chapter produced by Vanda Felbab-Brown for the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) volume, Partners for Stability , published in March 2013. In this chapter, Dr. Felbab-Brown explains how ...
Obstacles Ahead in Burma’s Opium War [Published The China Blog - Mar 19 2013] Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle is a crumpled baize of lofty peaks and lush valleys straddling the triptych borders of Thailand, Laos and Burma. The region is notorious for drugs, particularly Burma’s poppy fields that are the world’s second principal ...