Lawmakers and federal officials have long recognized this. The lack of treatment for mothers was so dire during the crack ...

Three decades ago, Gordon Lownds was living the entrepreneurial dream as a successful co-founder of the burgeoning Sleep ...

The most sober a crack addict ever sounds is when he's talking about the science of, well, crack. Amid three hours of screaming about George Clooney, the ...

Crack, or basecoke, has been making a comeback in the last two years, an investigation by NRC has shown. The price of the ...

Lee Clough, 38, was blood-soaked and high on crack cocaine when he pounced on the woman and grabbed her by the neck in a lift ...

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

Like Meade, Ridley shared his own story of overcoming a crack cocaine addiction. He said he remembers being in a crack house in the 1990s as a television carried news of a community group ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to author Donovan X. Ramsey about his new book, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era." It tells the story of the crack cocaine epidemic.

"I got complacent. Everything was going so well in my life," the 42-year-old said this week. But the spiral of crack addiction led to divorce and him ultimately robbing a bank and a pharmacy. On ...

Hunter Biden's ex-lovers will testify in Delaware about the troubled first son's crack addiction as he heads to trial for federal gun crimes on June 3, according to Monday court filings.

A crack addict has confessed to starting the house blaze that killed a Houston firefighter, claiming a small fire he lit so he could see his crack pipe got out of hand, authorities said Monday.

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 28, 2023, Section A, Page 18 of the New York edition with the headline: A 1986 Law Is Keeping Addiction Help in the Shadows.