Crack cocaine is pushing infant mortality rates to startlingly high levels in some U.S. cities as addicted mothers give birth to tiny, maimed infants who either die from their illnesses or go home to ...

The use of crack and powder cocaine both varies and overlaps among high school seniors, researchers have found. Their findings point to the need to take into account both common and different at-risk ...

It’s no secret that crack cocaine carries a stigma. While casual pot-smoking and cocaine use are tolerated in college dorms and clubs, crack cocaine is often considered to be on a different level — a ...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Tuesday that he had smoked crack cocaine, probably "in one of my drunken stupors," about a year ago. Here’s a look at the drug that can rapidly produce a high, some of the ...

In the late fall of 1985, one of my editors, Rudy Langlais, came to me and said he had a remarkable young writer, Barry Michael Cooper, who was black and living in Harlem, and had an incredible story ...

The price was a few dollars. The cost was catastrophic. When crack first hit the streets in 1984, users could trade a five-dollar bill for a single rock, getting a 10-minute high. But then they would ...