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 ...

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, ...

A federal grant program aimed at reducing the health risks associated with drug use has become the subject of misinformation online, with social media users and some Republican politicians accusing ...

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 ...

Stanley Nelson's big-picture documentary takes the measure of crack as a destroyer, but does it with a social awareness that was missing at the time. In the 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through ...

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 ...

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 ...

My community was in the middle of an invisible war. When people disappear from the neighborhood, I learned, it was because they’d been killed or locked up. Or even worse, they were “on that shit,” ...

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.

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 ...