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The trading and production of opium spread from the Mediterranean to China by the 15th century. Opium has many derivatives, including morphine, codeine, oxycodone, and heroin. Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thome. thomÃ©
The First Opium War was a war fought between the British and  the Chinese over the trade of the highly addictive drug, opium. The  First Opium War lasted a long three years â¦ as it stretched between  1839 and 1842 in the densely populated country of China.