While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, ...

For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed millions of lives and ravaged a great nation. China’s ...

Yes, one of my Chinese grandfathers was an opium addict. We called him Ashok (uncle in Cantonese for the father’s side of the family) Ah Kong. He was my paternal lolo’s brother-in-law and wasn ...

Millions of Chinese were addicted to opium in those ... The second volume also notes that the Manchukuo government forced opium addicts and other drug users to work in coal mines and industrial ...

ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of ... ZHENG YANGWEN:'By the 1820s, opium addiction became visible socially.' Which means opium dens on the street, people dying off ...

266-69 Kishlansky Introduction: Lin Zexu (1785-1850) was the Chinese Commissioner in Canton whose actions precipitated the Opium ... By the early nineteenth century opium was the principal product ...

Young people in China have curbed their addiction to video games ... officials - who once attacked video games as "spiritual opium" - may soften the country's severe gaming restrictions.

Chinese media has called the gaming addiction as the “opium of the mind.” The developers of Fortnite in China have shut down the servers of the game in the country. Fortress Night, as the game ...