Morphinans

The methadone's supplies that treats 3,000 drug addicts runs out because the supplier company contract has expired.

When he starts taking heroin, Georgi Alexandrov still does not believe he is an addict.

One night he fails to fall asleep without the drug.

Turkish police seized yesterday some 127.1 kilograms of heroin in two separate operations in the eastern province of Van.

Some five kilograms of heroin capsules have been seized in the first ever anti-narcotics operation in the newly-opened Istanbul Airport.

Bulgarian customs officials confiscated more than 288 kilograms (635 pounds) of heroin hidden on a truck from Iran, prosecutors announced Thursday.

The haul was the biggest amount of heroin seized at Bulgaria's borders this year, the customs agency said.

Turkish security forces on April 15 seized some 285.6 kilograms of heroin in the eastern Van province, local police said.

A police narcotics unit in Crete arrested a man on Monday after discovering heroin in his car, a local news website reported.

Some 1.5 tons of heroin that was seized on Jan. 23 in Turkey's eastern province of Erzurum was the largest amount seized in a single anti-drug operation in the country, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said.

Turkish police seized at least 100 kilograms of heroin in eastern Turkey on Dec. 30.

A 43-year-old Pakistani national who was arrested on Tuesday evening at Athens International Airport while trying to smuggle more than 11 kilograms of heroin into the country is part of a wider international drug ring bringing drugs into Greece from Asia, police said on Wednesday.

The 43-year-old reportedly flew into Athens from Lahore in Pakistan via Doha in Qatar.

The largest quantity of opioid drug tablets ever seized in Greece was destroyed by fire on Wednesday in the furnaces of a factory in the regional unit of Viotia, police said.

The 479 parcels of drugs contained more than 26 million tablets and weighed over 15 tonnes.