A new type of addict is showing up at Gamblers Anonymous meetings across the country: investors hooked on the market’s riskiest trades. At Gamblers Anonymous in the Murray Hill neighborhood of ...

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 ...

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 ...

If children aren’t in danger, we now know that removing them from the home isn’t always in their best interests. Bigstock/Kansas City Star Does having a substance use disorder automatically disqualify ...

Khalil Rafati had been at rock bottom with no home and a drug addiction — until he came across an opportunity that has since turned his fortunes around and given him millions ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “This is where the crack is sold,” says Josiane Otaviano Guilherme, picking her way down a litter-strewn alley ...

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 ...

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.