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Brazil Cracking Down On Crack

AP | STAN LEHMAN | Posted 05.10.2013 | Latino Voices

SAO PAULO -- Brazil's most populous and wealthiest state expanded its attack on crack cocaine abuse on Thursday by unveiling a program that will provi...

Psych Ward Freakout Reveals Many Bags Of Cocaine In Patient's Butt

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 04.01.2013 | Crime

When staff in a Bronx psychiatric ward subdued a patient for being anal, they allegedly found 17 bags of cocaine nestled between his butt cheeks. T...

David Lohr

Was He High? Police Say Man At Courthouse Checkpoint Gave Guards Crack

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.29.2013 | Weird News

Erie, Pa. – A man here tried to enter the Erie County Courthouse while carrying more than a dozen bags of crack cocaine. According to Erie police...

Raid Of The Day: "This is what happens when your grandma sells crack."

Radley Balko | Posted 05.05.2013 | Politics

From a lawsuit recently filed in federal court: Chicago police terrorized six children in the wrong apartment, demanding at gunpoint that an 11...

Cracked Wife Kills Abusive Husband, Cops Say

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 11.26.2012 | Crime

An abusive husband's body was found decomposing at home by his children, and his crack-using wife is now behind bars, police say. The corpse of Jam...

How Hip Hop Makes You Hate Yourself

Homeboy Sandman | Posted 01.19.2013 | Arts
Homeboy Sandman

"My daughter came up to me after listening to Nicki Minaj and asked me what a menage was. She's three years old." Wow. Words are powerful, aren't they?

Study: Crack Cocaine Markets Responsible For Decline In Black Male Graduation Rates

Posted 10.19.2012 | Home

A recent study attributes the emergence of a black-white education gap in the mid-1980s to a rise in crack cocaine markets. The authors — William...

How I Stopped Smoking Crack and Built the Life of My Dreams

Tommy Rosen | Posted 12.16.2012 | Los Angeles
Tommy Rosen

"On the night I almost died from smoking crack, there was no conscious understanding of what was happening in my mind or body. I was reduced to a state of depravity, like an animal whose only purpose was to never come down from the rush."

Woman Stashes Beau's Crack In Her You-Know-Where

Posted 10.02.2012 | Crime

When an alleged drug deal backfired on Ashley Bellamy and her boyfriend Marcus Gibson, she pulled the ultimate inside job. The 22-year-old Philadel...

Sex On The Beach, Crack Cocaine Lead To Arrests

Posted 09.24.2012 | Crime

In Naples, Florida, sex on the beach isn't the biggest deal in the world. Crack cocaine, on the other hand, will get you arrested. That's what one ...

Brazil's Crack Gangs Trigger New Favela Violence

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 11.21.2012 | World
Eric Ehrmann

With favela gangs arming themselves with RPGs and recruiting kids who are used as child soldiers, cocaine's bad karma is making Brazil a more violent society.

'Intervention': Addict Was Sexually Abused As A Child

Posted 09.18.2012 | TV

Terry's life started to spiral out of control at a young age. By the time he was featured on "Intervention," he was divorced, living with his parents ...

His Story Of Growing Up With An Addicted Parent

Posted 04.12.2013 | Teen

This video is part of "Undroppable," a documentary project from @Jason_Pollock that tells the stories of young people who have overcome significant ob...

Notorious Slum Drug Dealers Ban Crack

AP | JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 08.22.2012 | World

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Business was brisk in the Mandela shantytown on a recent night. In the glow of a weak light bulb, customers pawed through packets of...

Remove the Knife and Heal the Wound: No More Crack/Powder Disparities

Carl L. Hart | Posted 09.25.2012 | Politics
Carl L. Hart

I have given thousands of doses of crack cocaine to people -- as part of my research. To punish crack offenses more harshly than powder offenses is like punishing more harshly those who are caught smoking marijuana than those caught eating marijuana-laced brownies.

Killing Donald Evans by Richard Gatica

Sam Quinones | Posted 08.29.2012 | Crime
Sam Quinones

In May, Richard Gatica was found guilty of murder for the strangling of his cellmate at a jail in San Bernardino County, his third life prison term. Gatica is writing his memoirs, Never Feel The Wind, and this is his story of how he killed a crack dealer.

Cracking the Disparities: The Ongoing Battle for Fairness in Crack Sentencing

Nkechi Taifa, Esq. | Posted 08.26.2012 | Politics
Nkechi Taifa, Esq.

Despite improvements by Congress, the Sentencing Commission, the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court, the fight for fairness and justice in crack cocaine sentencing is not over.

Supreme Court Decides On Crack Sentencing

AP | Posted 08.21.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that people who committed crack cocaine crimes before more lenient penalties took effect and recei...

Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks About The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2012 | Black Voices
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

Mike Sacks

Supreme Court Weighs Fate Of Crack Dealers

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A couple of convicted crack cocaine dealers caught between old and new sentencing regimes had their cases argued before the Supreme Cour...

Sensationalizing Drug Use in Pregnant Women: How the Media Perpetuates Racist and Ineffective Policies

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 04.25.2012 | Politics
Marianne Mollmann

In this sense, poverty itself is what singles a pregnant woman out for persecution. It is no coincidence that the main focus for drug prosecutions for pregnant women in the United States is crack cocaine, a drug almost exclusively used by the resource-poor.

Police Find Crack In Suspect's Butt

The Huffington Post | Kyle McGovern | Posted 02.17.2012 | Weird News

Florida police arrested and charged a 28-year-old man with possession of cocaine after they found crack in, well, his crack, according to Martin Count...

Man In Court For Crack Pipe Possession Allegedly Caught With Crack Pipe

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.08.2012 | Weird News

This guy didn't crack such a big smile in his second booking photo for the same crime. Cops said that Florida man, 32-year-old Stanley Ramos, was ...

Family Struggles With Addiction And Suicide On 'Intervention'

Posted 03.31.2012 | TV

Only a teenager, Bradley has watched his mother Suzon go from being a classic modern-day soccer mom to a crack addict selling prescription drugs to pa...

Student Finds Cocaine In Textbook Ordered From Amazon

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.30.2012 | College

This gives a whole new meaning to "cracking" open a book. Sophia Stockton, a college junior in Olathe, Kan., got quite a surprise when she opened t...