Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DELRAY BEACH — If only the train would come now, Desmond Meade said he remembered thinking as he stood on railroad tracks in Miami ...

For those alive during those times, it is no overstatement to suggest that crack was the biggest news story of the 1980s. And it certainly felt much different than the approach being taken now towards ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Bobo has a method: Cocaine gets him through the day, when he cruises with a wheelbarrow around a slum on Rio’s west side, sorting through trash for recyclables to sell. At night, ...

Former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose dealing fueled the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C. died Tuesday, months after being released from prison. He was 60. Edmond, when he was 25, was ...

Many view the crack epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s as the most devastating drug epidemic New York City has ever experienced. In 1990, at the height of that epidemic, 541 New Yorkers died of drug ...

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 ...

PAPERWORK. DEL PASO HEIGHTS ACTIVISTS SAY PROGRESS IS BEING MADE IN THE COMMUNITY. THEY CONTINUE TO CUT DOWN ON VIOLENT CRIME AND REBUILD A COMMUNITY THAT IS DEALING WITH THE IMPACT FROM THE CRACK ...

A raw and necessary journey inside the reality of crack cocaine use in Switzerland, a growing phenomenon that - which started on the streets of America's great metropolises - is now taking root in ...

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 ...

Former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose dealing fueled the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C. died Tuesday, months after being released from prison. He was 60. Edmond, when he was 25, was ...