The growing use of crack cocaine and a synthetic cannabis variant known as “colos” is driving substance abuse among young Nigerians, including addiction which leave users with severe physical, mental ...

Easy access to crack cocaine is fueling addiction and leading to a cycle of hardship, mental health issues and homelessness in deprived communities, particularly in the North of England, a new study ...

My community was in the middle of an invisible war. When people disappear from the neighborhood, I learned, it was because they’d been killed or locked up. Or even worse, they were “on that shit,” ...

Drug users are "openly smoking crack" in a west London area after a treatment centre was relocated, local residents say.

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• Conservative commentators have accused the federal government of spending $30 million to provide Americans with "crack pipes." • The assertion stems from a federal "harm reduction" grant to prevent ...

WHILE the international trade in illicit and abused prescription drugs rakes in billions of dollars for traders and manufacturers, the users often end up penniless, addicted, suffering and dying. This ...

PARIS (AP) — Neighborhoods in northeast Paris have struggled for years with the scourge of crack cocaine and its use in public. The Summer Olympics, kicking off a year from Wednesday, are offering an ...

On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of ...

The big purple truck that delivers health supplies to drug users in Chicago’s suburbs carries more than 100 items — everything from syringes and condoms to snacks and winter coats. But there’s one ...