A building boss who punched his ex-partner in the face and smacked her with a pole in a two-year campaign of domestic abuse ...

*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 ...

A crack addict has confessed to starting the house blaze that killed a Houston firefighter, claiming a small fire he lit so he could see his crack pipe got out of hand, authorities said Monday.

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

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Days after police stormed one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous shantytowns to seize back territory long held by a powerful drug dealing organization, city health and welfare ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Officials in Brazil’s most populous state say they will start forcing adult crack addicts to go to rehabilitation centers in an effort to curb growing use of the drug. Number of ...

Hundreds of addicts are drawn to the Bahnhofsviertel area, where several so-called consumption rooms offer sterile needles and allow users to inject heroin, smoke crack cocaine and take other illegal ...

A battle has broken out over plans to open a new help centre for crack addicts near Frankfurt's main railway station, an area notorious for its bustling illegal drugs scene. Visitors arriving by rail ...