CAMBRIDGE — To paraphrase William Faulkner, the past is never really past. Harvard Art Museums — unusually, explicitly, emphatically — are currently making sure of that with “Objects of Addiction: ...

During the 19th century, opium was British India's most valued export and China its most lucrative market. So much so that in 1858 Britain went to war not to prevent drug trafficking, but to promote ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy. Over ...

KARACHI: Vasand Thari, a prominent social activist, has likened the current drug crisis in Sindh to the historical Opium War in China, calling for urgent action from civil society to address the ...

The country’s state-affiliated gaming association once called gaming ‘spiritual opium’ but they now claim going cold turkey was the cure. Reading time 3 minutes “Solving” gaming addiction sounds as ...