In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, near a storefront advertising “free” cellphones, J.R. sat in an empty back stairwell and showed a reporter how he tries to avoid overdosing when he smokes crack cocaine.

I opened my garden-level psychiatry home office on a tree-lined street in San Francisco at the beginning of the millennium. It felt like an oasis amid a high-density urban setting. By the time I moved ...

Crotty is an adjunct professor at American University’s School of Public Affairs and former deputy chief of staff at the Drug Enforcement Administration. Like many adolescents, I struggled mightily ...

Population-based analysis suggested links between methamphetamine and cocaine use and ventricular arrhythmias and mortality. Associations varied by demographics, such as race and gender. Prescription ...

In Pawtucket, R.I., near a storefront advertising “free” cell phones, J.R. sat in an empty back stairwell and showed a reporter how he tries to avoid overdosing when he smokes crack cocaine. (NPR is ...