RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Days after police stormed one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous shantytowns to seize back territory long held by a powerful drug dealing organization, city health and welfare ...

A FORMER Class A drug user with a history of serial offending is helping addicts in Barrow after turning his life around.

It’s difficult to pinpoint when Andy Kalli’s life hit rock bottom. Possibly the moment when he walked his daughter down the aisle with the wedding guests in tears, crying out of pity because he was a ...

DELRAY BEACH — If only the train would come now, Desmond Meade said he remembered thinking as he stood on railroad tracks in Miami 19 years ago. The train would mangle his body, snuff out his life.

Hunter Biden opened up about his crack cocaine addiction in an interview Monday with Andrew Callaghan on Channel 5, a YouTube channel. Biden said he often risked his life buying crack on the street, ...

The Federal Commission for Addiction and Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases is planning the establishment of dedicated squads to visit individuals addicted to crack and offer them medical and ...

The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s was met with demonization, mass incarceration and dehumanization of Black crack addicts. The opioid epidemic of today is being met with empathy, understanding ...