By Billie Jordan Sushine June 16, 2017 M. L. Holly, former crack addict turned therapist and author of “Swimming in Addiction” ...

Heritage addiction therapist Helen Merriweather said many crack addicts have to overcome low self-esteem, rejection, parental divorce and abandonment. Many started using marijuana as teens or ...

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.

"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.

In his new book, When Crack Was King: A People's History of A Misunderstood Era, Ramsey examines the crack epidemic of the 1980s and early '90s from the points of view of four people who lived ...

I functioned very well, but I was always high ... I was able to carry it off until I could no longer handle the stress of it.

During the interview with rapper and activist Talib Kweli on his “People’s Party” show, DMX revealed how his addiction started at age 14 when a 30-year-old musical mentor offered him a ...

Switzerland started facing challenges related to the rise in crack cocaine abuse around the year 2020. There were reports of high-quality and relatively inexpensive drugs saturating the streets.

Crack use is on the rise again in the Netherlands, NRC reported after speaking to researchers, experts, and addicts. The ...