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.

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.

In 1875, having found that many white men and women patronized the local "opium dens," the San Francisco Board of Supervisors attempted to check the "growing evil." To that end, they imposed hefty ...

Opium dens, dodgy dentists & dog meat cafes ... And with both Chinese and British governments willing to take responsibility for the place, the concrete jungle was soon taken over by anarchy.

Ten years later, his name hit the newspapers again when Deadwood police raided five Chinese opium dens, arresting 17 people from China and two white men, while confiscating eight pounds of opium ...

The Forbes House Museum in Milton is currently exhibiting "Opium: the Business of Addiction" detailing the South Shore's ties to China's opium crisis.

It was in Javanese ports that Chinese sailors learned the habit of smoking tobacco dipped in Dutch-made liquid opium. They brought the practice back to Chinese port cities, where opium dens ...

A LAW is malum prohibitum if it is wrong because the act is prohibited. Motive in crimes mala prohibita is immaterial. The defense of good faith is also unavailing. It is an offense that may not be ...

The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory—and Unsavory—History Venture into the Montana eatery, once a gambling den and opium repository, that still draws a crowd ...