The county's Medical Examiner is calling to pivot addiction prevention and treatment efforts to address rising cocaine ...

The crack epidemic that ravaged the United States from the 1970s to 1990s was a dark chapter in American history, characterized by soaring addiction rates, urban decay, and devastating consequences ...

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 ...

Leaders in substance abuse treatment gathered last week to reflect on the failures of the war on crack cocaine and to lay a course to repair the damage to people still suffering in the system designed ...

Outrage exhaustion is real. But spare a moment for the roughly 2,600 men and women whose lives were upended and in hundreds of cases ruined when the Broward Sheriff’s Office got into the crack cocaine ...

Crack cocaine use is increasingly visible across Amsterdam, with daily reports of public drug use, theft, intimidation, and ...

Most people believe that smoking major drugs like heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, or cocaine is much safer than injecting the drug. After all, there are serious risks of major skin abscesses with ...

Population-based analysis suggested links between methamphetamine and cocaine use and ventricular arrhythmias and mortality. Associations varied by demographics, such as race and gender. Prescription ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cocaine addicts can control their cravings by willpower alone, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study that suggests the right training may help abusers kick the habit.