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 ...

‘Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine but ... am I an addict? No’: One-time Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford - Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images It is a feature of modern life that many of the world’s ...

I bet many of you remember the iconic 1991 film, New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown. Brown was a rising drug lord in New York City during the crack epidemic. He built this large drug ...

This is where the crack is sold,” says Josiane Otaviano Guilherme, picking her way down a litter-strewn alley between the ...

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 ...

Waring, 29, of Lockside, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to three charges of shoplifting and one of breaching a criminal behaviour order by entering Dunelm in Blackburn. He was sentenced to 16 weeks in ...