The opening salvo in the global war on drugs took place in a Dutch royal palace a century ago, and involved not guns but ...

When you fight the past, the past fights back.

Two downed U.S. soldiers in rural Afghanistan happen upon an opium-producing family living under a Soviet tank in "Opium War," Siddiq Barmak's baffling second feature. Two downed U.S. soldiers in ...

Pharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the ...