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Donovan Ramsey discusses his book "When Crack Was King." Life in the United States was blighted by the crack epidemic of the 1980s, which devastated communities and defined a generation. "When Crack ...

On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of ...

Dick was caught slumped outside in Hollywood, Calif., after suffering an apparent crack cocaine overdose on Tuesday.

Andy Dick said he smoked crack cocaine with a random man he met on the streets of Los Angeles ahead of suffering an apparent overdose. The comedian, 59, spoke to TMZ inside his Los Angeles home on ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL HOST: Now, in the United States, we know how the opioid epidemic and the fentanyl crisis are literally major killers. But perhaps we’ve forgotten one that ...