"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.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to author Donovan X. Ramsey about his new book, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era." It tells the story of the crack cocaine epidemic.

The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s was met with demonization, mass incarceration and dehumanization of Black crack addicts. The opioid epidemic of today is being met with empathy ...

Hunter Biden Wrote Memoir to 'Humanize' Addiction Sufferers After Living with Homeless Crack Addict The president's son released a memoir, Beautiful Things, this week ...

Jasmine speaks on her cousin, Darron, and how a decision to go from primos to crack pipes provided him with a high he would chase for the rest of his life.

After sixteen years as a crack addict, Holly took the path of sobriety seriously and never looked back at a crack pipe again. During her 22 plus years of recovery she learned how family ...

The March 13 front-page article “A seven-year search for justice” devastatingly revealed the absence of empathy and responsibility among law enforcement and other representatives of the ...

Hunter Biden's memoir says that "crack is a great leveler" — but his series of homeless companions may suggest otherwise.

The federal government needs to stop penalizing programs that help addicts safely consume their drugs while providing treatment.

4 biggest myths about crack For U.S. politicians, targeting drug users in black communities is easier than addressing poverty and unemployment ...

'Crack pipe' rhetoric is not only wrong, it's deadly. Harm reduction efforts save lives. Past approaches to treating addiction with prison and punishment have failed. Biden's harm reduction ...