Background: In Iran, there are an estimated 200,000 injecting drug users (IDUs). Injecting drug use is a relatively new phenomenon for this country, where opium smoking was the predominant form of ...

TEHRAN The Police Commander of Qaen, Khorasan Province, Colonel Abbas Ali Motahhari Tabar, said on Monday that some 70 kilos of opium have been seized from the drug dealers, during the past two days.

Opium is a highly addictive drug. It’s made from juice extracted from the unripe seed pods of opium poppy plants (the scientific name is Papaver somniferum). Opium is used to make a class of drugs ...