"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 ...

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 ...

At the time of writing, Abi Feltham, a successful 35-year-old social media marketer from southeast England, has just come home from a two-week holiday in sunny Albania with her partner. But in 2020, ...

Khalil Rafati had been at rock bottom with no home and a drug addiction — until he came across an opportunity that has since ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Fox Business host Charles Payne called out the alleged “huge double standard” of President Joe Biden’s family Tuesday by revealing that his brother, who struggles with a crack addiction, is currently ...

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 10 years for selling fentanyl-laced heroin and crack cocaine to undercover officers on Long ...

Brazilian scientists announced a breakthrough in drug addiction therapy with the development of a vaccine to combat crack cocaine and cocaine addiction in a nation with a notably high cocaine usage ...

DELRAY BEACH — If only the train would come now, Desmond Meade said he remembered thinking as he stood on railroad tracks in Miami 19 years ago. The train would mangle his body, snuff out his life.