There have long been scare stories about drugs so we need to be careful when interpreting new drug use data. But recent reports suggest that crack cocaine use is on the rise again. Crack emerged in ...

In “When Crack Was King,” Donovan X. Ramsey offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws. A man selling crack on ...

Stanley Nelson's big-picture documentary takes the measure of crack as a destroyer, but does it with a social awareness that was missing at the time. In the 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through ...