Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a brushfire, and it was a devastating scourge. But it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Does having a substance use disorder automatically disqualify you from being a good parent? Whether it is a struggle with alcohol, ...

A few weeks ago, The New York Times issued a massive mea culpa on its editorial page: News organizations shoulder much of the blame for the moral panic that cast mothers with crack addictions as ...

While crack cocaine seems to account for the rise in the murder rate of black youths in the 1980s, as well as more moderate increases in a wide range of adverse birth outcomes, the damaging social ...

Hunter Biden’s attorneys intend to argue he was within his Second Amendment rights to purchase a handgun in 2018 during a time in his life in which he had admitted he was addicted to crack cocaine, ...

Ryan Reed Kaufman was 4 years old, unwanted by a mother who smoked crack while she was pregnant, living with a foster family who pacified him with NyQuil every night at bedtime. He had no reason to ...

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee man charged in connection with armed robberies at CVS and Walgreens told investigators he commits these crimes because he is addicted to crack cocaine, according to a criminal ...

Stanley Nelson's big-picture documentary takes the measure of crack as a destroyer, but does it with a social awareness that was missing at the time. In the 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through ...