Intervention tries to help crack addict and prostitute Melissa out of her downward spiral This week Intervention meets Melissa, who is addicted to crack, working as a prostitute to pay for drugs and ...

Currently, there are no effective pharmaceutical therapies for treating people addicted to crack cocaine. However, Canadian researchers recently investigated the influence of marijuana to help people ...

To say a Vicodin prescription from her dentist led Michelle from the life of suburban housewife to crack addict simplifies the journey too much. But it’s as good a starting point as any. Her life once ...

Flavor Flav is opening up about his struggles with drug addiction and revealed the financial toll of his dependency. During a recent interview on the podcast "Off the Record With DJ Akademiks," the 63 ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Officials in Brazil’s most populous state say they will start forcing adult crack addicts to go to rehabilitation centers in an effort to curb growing use of the drug. Number of ...

The most sober a crack addict ever sounds is when he’s talking about the science of, well, crack. Amid three hours of screaming about George Clooney, the illegal immigrants responsible for cleaning ...

“Crack Addicts” isn’t what you think it is. The new TLC show follows the art of cracking bones in a therapeutic way. It’s about chiropractors, not drugs. The new show premieres on Wednesday, May 24 (5 ...

When Leola Bivins was first sent away for dealing drugs, she was a 22-year-old high school dropout with a 2-year-old daughter at home. Addiction was the center of the life she knew in East Stroudsburg ...