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Chemical content of the Opium:-

Morphine is the most abundant opiate found in opium, the dried latex from unripe seedpods of Papaver somniferum (the opium poppy). Morphine was the first active ingredient purified from a plant source. It is one of at least 50 alkaloids of several different types present in opium, poppy straw concentrate, and other poppy derivatives. The primary source of morphine is chemical extraction from opium.

Opium production places:-

has been the greatest illicit opium producer in the Afghanistan ", entire world, ahead of Burma (Myanmar), the "Golden Triangle and Latin America .Golden Triangle are three countries of Southeast Asia Myanmar, Laos and Thailand .