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Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year-old ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers ... methamphetamine in the form of tablets and crystal meth supplanted it. It’s easier to make ...