Cooked opium is more pure than raw opium, and can go directly to users or to laboratories for further processing into heroin. Hickory police later find a self-storage unit that Saelee had leased three ...

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 ...