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 ...

Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber (2019, Cambridge University Press, 214 pp., $24.95 HB) As we live through the year of the pandemic, with its ...

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 ...

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 ...