The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s was met with demonization, mass incarceration and dehumanization of Black crack addicts. The opioid epidemic of today is being met with empathy, understanding ...

A mom was a decade-long heroin addict, spending nearly $680 on the substance per week — but she kicked the habit once she hit rock bottom. When Shannon Ashley was 13, she tried heroin to “show off” in ...

‘Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine but ... am I an addict? No’: One-time Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford - Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images It is a feature of modern life that many of the world’s ...

Waring, 29, of Lockside, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to three charges of shoplifting and one of breaching a criminal behaviour order by entering Dunelm in Blackburn. He was sentenced to 16 weeks in ...

This is where the crack is sold,” says Josiane Otaviano Guilherme, picking her way down a litter-strewn alley between the ...

DECATUR - Crack cocaine, a drug that has reached epidemic proportions in many large cities since its introduction in the mid-1980s, has found its way into almost every corner of the nation. While ...

The 55-year-old son of President Joe Biden participated in the Matthew Perry Foundation’s summit on substance abuse, a ...