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,” ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In the introduction to his new book, When Crack was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey recalls how during his childhood in the early 1990s, the term ...

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 ...

A Middlesbrough crack-cocaine dealer has been jailed after police caught him supplying to users on a street. Paul Harvey was ...

Police say a Rockford man was stabbed six times during a violent argument over gas money after a night of sex and drug use, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, who use crack cocaine risk deterioration in their immune status, development of "AIDS-defining" illnesses, and death ...