Like Mayor Rob Ford, most crack users today are employed, white men. Nov. 7, 2013— -- Cheap, easy to produce and packing a euphoric high, crack cocaine experienced a dizzying period of popularity ...

In the 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a brushfire, and it was a devastating scourge. But it also left a seared trail of media images that were more concocted, ...

WRAL anchor/reporter Dan Haggerty has written the piece below as part of his “In Depth with Dan” segment that airs on WRAL News at 7 p.m. Last week on WRAL Evening News, I anchored a segment about ...

One of the most confounding legacies of the crack epidemic is that everyone has heard of crack — we all think we know what we need to know — but few of us actually understand it. That’s not an ...

In the introduction to his new book, When Crack was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey recalls how during his childhood in the early 1990s, the term ...

The big purple truck that delivers health supplies to drug users in Chicago’s suburbs carries more than 100 items — everything from syringes and condoms to snacks and winter coats. But there’s one ...

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 ...

Neighborhoods in northeast Paris have struggled for years with the scourge of crack cocaine and its use in public. The Summer Olympics, kicking off a year from Wednesday, are offering an impetus to ...

The author at their grandmother’s house with their dad (1996). In July of 2019, I took an Amtrak train from my home in Boston to my father’s apartment outside of New York City. I had one intention for ...

Crack has been a problem in Paris for 30 years but has become visible after pandemic lockdowns. One neighborhood is protesting against users and dealers who have been allowed to occupy their park.

The backlash and firestorm from the right has been disturbing. When the Biden administration stopped accepting applications on Feb. 7 for its harm reduction program that pays for, among other things, ...