Boosie Badazz claims that having a crack-cocaine addiction will lead to a longer life than someone with an addiction to fentanyl. The Louisiana native made the shocking statement while reacting to the ...

The most sober a crack addict ever sounds is when he’s talking about the science of, well, crack. Amid three hours of screaming about George Clooney, the illegal immigrants responsible for cleaning ...

*Annapolis, MD – During her 19-year crack addiction, Tonier Cain racked up 83 arrests and 66 convictions. She turned to prostitution to pay for drugs, lost custody of four children, and, when she wasn ...

"I got complacent. Everything was going so well in my life," the 42-year-old said this week. But the spiral of crack addiction led to divorce and him ultimately robbing a bank and a pharmacy. On ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- An admitted crack addict who claimed self-defense in the stabbing death of another man -- someone whose body was dumped in an Ottawa County park -- has been found guilty of murder.

The subject of addiction swirls with myths and misinformation. It doesn’t help that so many people seem to believe that their own struggle with addiction — or a few drop-ins to Alcoholics Anonymous ...

On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to author Donovan X. Ramsey about his new book, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era." It tells the story of the crack cocaine epidemic. One of ...