These pictures show the unbelievable transformation of a former crack user and prostitute who turned her life around after marrying a client. Fabiane de Souza, 27, was just nine years old when she was ...

Today, Sherelyn Anderson's war on drugs ends. The one-time crack addict is to be sentenced in King County Superior Court for helping an undercover officer get $100 worth of crack cocaine in May 2001.

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. One of ...

The last time Maurice Morgan smoked crack was a Monday night. It was 2009, and his mother had died the year before. Morgan, 40 at the time, was a recovering addict who’d struggled with relapses before ...

While the group’s leader and co-founder Chuck D was preaching to the Black community to do better, the epidemic had infiltrated Public Enemy. The Public Enemy 1988 song about crack use, “Night of the ...

HOLLY Hagan has admitted she’s been forced to go “cold turkey” while trying to crack an addiction that’s taking over her life ...

A 16-year-old crack cocaine addict says he is desperate to turn his life around after carrying out a series of thefts. In the space of just a couple of weeks the boy, who cannot be named because of ...

‘Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine but ... am I an addict? No’: One-time Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford - Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images It is a feature of modern life that many of the world’s ...

In his new documentary, actor Charlie Sheen opened up about his troubles with drug and alcohol addiction and how he received ...

DECATUR - Crack cocaine, a drug that has reached epidemic proportions in many large cities since its introduction in the mid-1980s, has found its way into almost every corner of the nation. While ...

I'm the same as most recovering addicts - the most fun I ever had nearly killed me. And while I was in the grip of my addiction, I would have told you I'd never give it up. I wasn't an alcoholic, a ...