Opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. 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. The latex also contains the closely related opiates codeine and thebaine, and non-analgesic alkaloids such as papaverine and noscapine. The traditional, labor-intensive method of obtaining the latex is to scratch ("score") the immature seed pods (fruits) by hand; the latex leaks out and dries to …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …
freshly deposited silt, they would grow mustard, opium, and, at the end of winter, rice. They would move …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 April 2022 English
do the gruelling work, by giving her nutmeg with opium in her childhood to strengthen her arms. Ramabai … my wrist Rama, my mother, has fed me nutmeg in opium Pulling the grindmill, it gets you exhausted Twelve …
IAP: Iqbal Academy Pakistan · 1 January 2022 Urdu
Tehsin Firaqi,Iqbal: Dida-e-Bina-e-Qaum(Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan, 2022), p. 221.
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2021 English
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, established the National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi Nomadic Tribes in 2005. The Commission, chaired by Balkrishna Sidram Renke, …
would be omply cleor thot the Solt Tox, olong with opium, which formed the bulk of the revenue of lndio wos …
LC: Library of Congress · 2021 English
Title from cover. "July 2021." "SIGAR-21-41-LL."--page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-297). Description based on online surrogate.
the North, East and West project aimed to reduce opium-poppy cultivation. However, during implementa- tion … indicators that were directly related to reducing opium-poppy cultivation. M&E cannot track progress towards …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 September 2020 English
Crime in India 2019 is a three-volume report published in September 2020 by the National Crime Records Bureau, an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, government of India. The …
Seizure of Narcotic Drugs i. Ganja (3,42,045 kg), Opium (4,488 kg), Hashish (3,572 kg), Heroin (3,231 kg) …
LC: Library of Congress · 2020 English
"PIN: 206971-000"--Page 4 of cover. Shipping list no.: 2021-0047-P. Includes bibliographical references (page 87). Description based on online surrogate.
accounted for more than 85 percent of Afghan- istan’s opium and heroin production, which the Taliban taxed … in 2006, and 30 percent of the global supply of opium. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had campaigned …
LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 2019 English
"Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion-the era that propelled Afghanistan into …
with the interests of radical Islamist groups and opium producers who seek to maintain Afghanistan as their …
LC: Library of Congress · 2019 English
Includes bibliographical references. Title from PDF file as viewed on 12/02/2019.
back cover photo: Girls collecting the residual opium from the crop in Khogiani district, Nangarhar Photos: … and is the author of A State Built on Sand: How opium undermined Afghanistan. David has worked for AREU … The risks that illicit drug crop production – opium, opiates, marijuana and increasingly methamphetamine … largest single economic sector in Afghanistan. Opium poppy is the country’s most valuable cash crop … Taliban and the prospects of imposing another opium ban . 7 2.2. ........Licensing the crop in the …
LC: Library of Congress · 2019 English
Includes bibliographical references. Title from PDF file as viewed on 01/02/2020.
..................................... 178 11. Opium Cultivation, Trafficking, and the Drug-Conflict … sections as well. For example, if you are researching opium cultivation, there will likely be relevant sources …
