Tag: Opium

Google's new self-driving prototype car is presented during a demonstration at the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. (AP photo)

POLICY ROUNDUP

Washington Examiner, Joana Suleiman · January 4, 2016 5:01 am

Afghan farmers collect raw opium as they work in a poppy field in the Zhari district of Kandahar, South of Kabul, Afghanistan. President Obama designated Afghanistan as one of 22Â "major drug transit and/or major illicit drug producing countries."Â (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Afghanistan, Mexico designated as major drug hubs

Nicole Duran · September 14, 2015 8:28 pm

Doctors may feel pressure to prescribe opioids because it may lead to a better score on a patient satisfaction survey, experts said. (AP Photo)

Lawmakers want to change how heroin addiction is treated

Robert King · July 8, 2015 3:49 pm

Heroin and opioid abuse triggering spike in Hep C cases

Robert King · May 7, 2015 8:44 pm

Obamacare program may be linked to ER opioid prescriptions

Robert King · May 7, 2015 9:00 am

In the coming years, no person will play a more critical role in saving Afghanistan than Dr. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the nation's new president. (AP Photo)

Afghanistan needs its own Plan Colombia

George Phillips · April 9, 2015 9:00 am

Deborah Amdur misled Sen. Kelly Ayotte about the veterans hospital givingÂ a recalled drug to a veteran and then hiding the evidence for five years.Â (AP Photo)Â

Vet Affairs exec who misled Ayotte appointed to Tomah scandal review panel

Luke Rosiak · April 8, 2015 9:00 am

More than one-fifth of pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries filled a prescription for opioids during their pregnancy.Â (iStock)

Healthcare costs exploding for drug-addicted expectant moms and their infants

Ethan Barton · February 11, 2015 11:49 pm

More than 90 percent of the world's opium poppy is produced in Afghanistan. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Despite U.S. efforts, Afghan opium trade thrives

Sarah Bedford · October 30, 2014 9:00 am

Afghan opium poppy cultivation hits all-time high

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2014 4:14 pm

Farmers slice open the green poppy bulbs, full raw opium, the main ingredient in heroin, on a poppy field in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Afghans headed to ‘narco-criminal state’

Mark Tapscott · September 13, 2014 11:31 am

Iran tries to block Afghanistan’s opium boom

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · June 4, 2014 5:10 am