The most dangerous illicit drug ever concocted, fentanyl, has turned entire blocks of America’s major cities into the 21st-century equivalent of open-air opium dens — or war zones.

CHINA TO STAMP OUT THE USE OF OPIUM; Officials Must Set the Example and Cure Themselves. OPIUM DENS TO BE CLOSED Persons Addicted to the Drug to be Registered -- No One Will Be Allowed to Begin ...

Not until the depression struck was any official notice taken of the opium dens, and even then it was never suggested that the use of the drug was harmful per se. It was its character as a Chinese ...

CLOSING AN OPIUM DEN.; A CHINESE JOINT IN MULBERRY-STREET ENTERED BY THE POLICE. Share full article. July 25, 1886. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

War on Drugs. Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America's First Drug War San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as ...

In addition to the opium wars, references to events of the 1930s and'40s by Chinese leaders today are also linked to a "more internationalist China that's looking outward", Mitter says.

New York City is certainly not lacking in fascinating history, and the story of the tong men of the Lower East Side is no exception. “Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in… ...

A photo from the early 20th century depicts Chinese-Americans smoking in an opium den. North Yakima officials launched a years-long campaign to eradicate such dens from the city.

The newly opened Warehouse Hotel in Singapore has rather colorful past lives, including that of opium den, gambling hub and ’80s disco.