RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Bobo has a method: Cocaine gets him through the day, when he cruises with a wheelbarrow around a slum on Rio’s west side, sorting through trash for recyclables to sell. At night, ...

Like Mayor Rob Ford, most crack users today are employed, white men. Nov. 7, 2013— -- Cheap, easy to produce and packing a euphoric high, crack cocaine experienced a dizzying period of popularity ...

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 ...

Bernard Groves has spent five years trying to quit methamphetamine. He lost his job. He lost his car. He nearly lost his apartment. Worse than that, he says, his addiction has hurt his family. “I went ...

But we used a couple of tricks to work around this and make them visible." Want to develop treatment for substance abuse There is currently no for cocaine abuse, but in the long run the researchers ...

Lawmakers are making a last-ditch push to pass legislation that seeks to reduce — but not entirely erase — sentencing disparities for crack and powder cocaine offenses before the year is finished.

As cocaine use continues to climb across the United States, scientists have struggled to develop an effective pharmacological approach to treat the devastating disorder. But by seamlessly combining ...