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When the Americans occupied the Philippines in 1899 after the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898, they found out that there was drug abuse by residents, mostly the Chinese.

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Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard in this northeastern Myanmar village to get high. When authorities show up, it's for their own quick fix: Soldiers and police roll up the sleeves of their dark green uniforms, seemingly oblivious to passers-by.

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The government has warned supermarkets and groceries against selling a popular food dressing and dip product containing opium poppy seeds.

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One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok's Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching stomach pains brought on waves of diarrhea. Howling in agony, he leapt around the room in a kind of devil dance, his body smeared with oily sweat, vomit, mucus and feces.

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Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan on Monday agreed to bolster regional cooperation to combat drug smuggling at a time when the cultivation of illicit opium poppy is increasing.

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A UN report said insecurity and rising opium prices have driven Afghan farmers to increase cultivation of the illicit opium poppy by 7 percent in 2011 despite a major push to wean the country off of the lucrative crop.

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Lost in the substandard broadcast media coverage of the executions of three Filipino drug mules in China are the more important perspectives to the drug problem as it affects both the Philippines and China.

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KAPAG sinabing opium, iisa ang iisipin ng lahat – droga! Kahanay ng heroine, shabu at iba pang substance na nakaka-addict.

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When the Americans occupied the Philippines in 1899 after the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898, they found out that there was drug abuse by residents, mostly the Chinese.

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Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard in this northeastern Myanmar village to get high. When authorities show up, it's for their own quick fix: Soldiers and police roll up the sleeves of their dark green uniforms, seemingly oblivious to passers-by.

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The government has warned supermarkets and groceries against selling a popular food dressing and dip product containing opium poppy seeds.

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One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok's Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching stomach pains brought on waves of diarrhea. Howling in agony, he leapt around the room in a kind of devil dance, his body smeared with oily sweat, vomit, mucus and feces.

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Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan on Monday agreed to bolster regional cooperation to combat drug smuggling at a time when the cultivation of illicit opium poppy is increasing.

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A UN report said insecurity and rising opium prices have driven Afghan farmers to increase cultivation of the illicit opium poppy by 7 percent in 2011 despite a major push to wean the country off of the lucrative crop.

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Lost in the substandard broadcast media coverage of the executions of three Filipino drug mules in China are the more important perspectives to the drug problem as it affects both the Philippines and China.

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KAPAG sinabing opium, iisa ang iisipin ng lahat – droga! Kahanay ng heroine, shabu at iba pang substance na nakaka-addict.

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