Ian Hamilton is affiliated with Alcohol Research UK. Harry Sumnall receives and has received funding from grant awarding bodies for drug and alcohol research. He is an unpaid member of the Advisory ...
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,” ...
In “When Crack Was King,” Donovan X. Ramsey offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws. A man selling crack on ...
Brenna Houck is a dining editorial manager for the Eater network overseeing the Cascadia and Midwest regions. She previously edited Eater Detroit and reported for Eater. You can follow her at ...
LOS ANGELES — Are you a junkie in Skid Row who just got a bag of crack or fentanyl, but have no pipe to smoke it in? Don’t worry: local nonprofit organizations will hand you a brand-new crack pipe ...
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL HOST: Now, in the United States, we know how the opioid epidemic and the fentanyl crisis are literally major killers. But perhaps we’ve forgotten one that ...
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 ...
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 ...