What if the nation had met the crack epidemic of the 1980s with healthcare rather than with police and prison? How much more prepared might we have been today for a deadly viral pandemic, and how much ...

Former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose dealing fueled the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C. died Tuesday, months after being released from prison. He was 60. Edmond, when he was 25, was ...

Many view the crack epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s as the most devastating drug epidemic New York City has ever experienced. In 1990, at the height of that epidemic, 541 New Yorkers died of drug ...

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 ...

Federal officials confirmed Thursday that Rayful Edmond III, the prolific drug dealer who helped fuel D.C.’s crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s, has been transferred to a halfway house. A Bureau of ...

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 ...

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor says he will seek to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine manufactured by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office for ...

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Former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose dealing fueled the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C. died Tuesday, months after being released from prison. He was 60. Edmond, when he was 25, was ...