After sixteen years as a crack addict, Holly took the path of sobriety seriously and never looked back at a crack pipe again. During her 22 plus years of recovery she learned how family ...

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

But it still exists. With all that we know about crack, with all the compassion that we have now for addicts, we still haven't moved far enough to eliminate that disparity entirely." ...

During the interview with rapper and activist Talib Kweli on his “People’s Party” show, DMX revealed how his addiction started at age 14 when a 30-year-old musical mentor offered him a ...

Heritage addiction therapist Helen Merriweather said many crack addicts have to overcome low self-esteem, rejection, parental divorce and abandonment. Many started using marijuana as teens or ...

Switzerland started facing challenges related to the rise in crack cocaine abuse around the year 2020. There were reports of high-quality and relatively inexpensive drugs saturating the streets.

DMX told Talib Kweli about how his addiction began when he unknowingly smoked a crack-laced blunt that his mentor gave him when he was just 14.

She finally got a chance to show off her dramatic acting chops in Spike Lee’s 1991 film, “Jungle Fever.” She was crack addict Vivian, alongside Samuel L. Jackson as fellow addict Gator.

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.