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 ...

The mix of stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamines with fentanyl is driving the opioid epidemic's 'fourth wave.' This mixture presents powerful challenges to efforts to reduce overdoses ...

Rayful Edmond III, a drug lord best known for catalyzing a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s, has died. He was 60. According to The New York Times, Edmond’s death was ...

Around five years ago Merchants Quay Ireland started providing crack cocaine pipes in its needle-exchange rooms alongside needles. “We have a crack epidemic,” says Amy Carroll, harm reduction ...