RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Business was brisk in the Mandela shantytown on a recent night. In the glow of a weak light bulb, customers pawed through packets of powdered cocaine and marijuana priced at $5, ...

Ranee Sanford ‘23 graduated from Santa Clara University with a major in political science and minor in economics. Sanford was a 2022-23 Government Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied ...

Leaders in many cities have recently concluded that it was a bad idea to decriminalize hard drugs. Unless you get your news from NPR, you already knew that allowing people to buy fentanyl, ...

President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in his final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes. “Today, I ...

Detroit — Crack cocaine hit Detroit like a bomb 40 years ago, destroying families, straining law enforcement and causing paradigm shifts in the criminal justice system and popular culture. The crack ...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Holyoke Police continues to crack down on drug dealing in the city. This resulted in the arrest of ten suspects and the recovery of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, ...

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 ...