Crack cocaine use is on the rise as more people presenting at a treatment centre are hooked on the deadly drug than on heroin. Coolmine, an organisation helping people with drug addiction in Dublin, ...

High on crack cocaine, Aaron carried a knife and kept his shoes tied tight, constantly prepped to either fight or run. He stabbed a dealer in the face to get a fix — knowing that the high would only ...

Frontline workers in southwest Dublin have said there is a 'tsunami' of crack cocaine addiction in the area. A report commissioned by the Tallaght Drugs and Alcohol Task Force found that one third of ...

Crack dealers in urban areas are using increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques to lure in new users and dissuade people from giving up the drug, gardaí say. Crack cocaine is now recognised as ...

The particular vulnerabilities of women caught up in an "epidemic" of crack addiction in west Tallaght, Dublin, are clear during an evening with one of the area's only after-hours outreach teams. Of ...

Charities working with drug users have expressed concern around the number of people presenting with crack cocaine dependency. An organisation in Tallaght, Dublin said it is now the number one issue ...

Waste and used syringes lie on a stainless steel table at a drug consumption room in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel. (Photo by Louis VAN BOXEL-WOOLF / AFP) A battle has broken out over plans to open a ...

A Oxford-educated lawyer from Liverpool lost his job, freedom, wife and almost his life after spiralling into a crack cocaine addiction. John McGlashan, 69, tells the story of his journey through ...

THE exasperated and heartbroken parents of a crack addict who once urged a judge to show him leniency have seen him jailed after he burgled their home again. Despite previously vowing to give up drugs ...

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 ...