One of the most confounding legacies of the crack epidemic is that everyone has heard of crack — we all think we know what we need to know — but few of us actually understand it. That’s not an ...

Leaders in substance abuse treatment gathered last week to reflect on the failures of the war on crack cocaine and to lay a course to repair the damage to people still suffering in the system designed ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, who use crack cocaine risk deterioration in their immune status, development of "AIDS-defining" illnesses, and death ...