"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

It is too early to know any one explanation, but the battle against the opioid epidemic has been wide-ranging.Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter sales ...

The Drug That Could Help End the Opioid Epidemic. Story by Ethan Brooks • 10mo. L ast year the U.S. had about 81,000 overdose deaths involving opioids. ... In the ’80s and ’90s, ...

Suicide is another mounting concern. In 2022, it was the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming more than 49,000 lives. Meanwhile, drug overdose deaths have nearly quadrupled since 2003, ...

Donovan X. Ramsey explains how documenting the history of the drug war is a “community project” and looks back on 1990s rap music's anti-crack hits.

Look, I'm a kid of the '80s. ... people will will try to credit Nancy Reagan and the "Just Say No" campaign and DARE and all that stuff for ending the drug epidemic or the crack epidemic.

The crack epidemic that ravaged the United States from the 1970s to 1990s was a dark chapter in American history, characterized by soaring addiction rates, urban decay, and devastating consequences ...

The drug epidemic has skyrocketed across the US, ... “In 2021 there were 109,000 drug deaths, 75 or 80 percent of that was Fentanyl,” Fox said.

Last year the U.S. had about 81,000 overdose deaths involving opioids. The tally since 1999 is at least 645,000. Though the culprits have changed over the years—first it was prescription opioids ...

As the epidemic took hold, the media presented apocalyptic views of Black neighborhoods transformed by the drug, and warned of a coming wave of "crack babies." Meanwhile, instead of treating the issue ...

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.