cocaine

A new study finds a 50-fold growth in deaths from combined use of stimulants and opioids. The toxic and contaminated drug supply is to blame.

"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.

The nation faces a grim milestone of having a record number of overdose deaths in 2020. One expert says social isolation increased the risk of dying from an overdose.

In South Florida we tend to think of the golden age of cocaine (if it can be called that) as the 1980s – iconic Colombian drug lords like Pablo Escobar...

Eilene Zimmerman didn't learn of her ex-husband's addiction to cocaine and opioids until after his death. "This had happened in front of us, and we hadn't recognized it," she says.

The United States Coast Guard seized cocaine with an estimated street value of around $500 million during a series of interdictions in international…

Authorities say a 2-year-old Florida boy was hospitalized with marijuana and cocaine in his system.The Bradenton Herald reports that the boy's parents,…

A former Homeland Security Investigations special agent has been sentenced to three years in prison for taking bribes to help a Colombian cocaine…

A highly anticipated report from Florida's medical examiners shows dramatic increases in all types of drug-related deaths, including a 97 percent increase…

Authorities say a Department of Homeland Security agent took bribes to help a Colombian cocaine trafficker avoid charges.A Department of Justice news…