CAMBRIDGE — To paraphrase William Faulkner, the past is never really past. Harvard Art Museums — unusually, explicitly, emphatically — are currently making sure of that with “Objects of Addiction: ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy. Over ...

The country’s state-affiliated gaming association once called gaming ‘spiritual opium’ but they now claim going cold turkey was the cure. Reading time 3 minutes “Solving” gaming addiction sounds as ...

During the 19th century, opium was British India's most valued export and China its most lucrative market. So much so that in 1858 Britain went to war not to prevent drug trafficking, but to promote ...