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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Crack had a massive impact on the Black community in the 1980s. It would ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the group’s leader and co-founder Chuck D was preaching to the Black community to do better, the epidemic had infiltrated Public Enemy. The Public Enemy 1988 song about crack use, “Night of the ...

Drug addiction continues to plague Memphis and the Mid-South. For years, the monster of drug addiction consumed Ben Owen. “I ...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, Washington, D.C., was a city under siege. As with other cities, it descended into near chaos because of the crack epidemic that claimed even innocent lives. Whole ...

A crack cocaine addict who told two nurses carrying out a mental health assessment he was going to kill them has been jailed for 10 months.

These heartbreaking pictures show the horrific decline of a pretty college student who tragically died after losing a battle against heroin addiction. In one of the photos Leanne Johnson is seen ...