THE first teen-age narcotics users in the neighborhood of the Henry Street Settlement on New York‘s Lower East Side were not the newcomers to the area. They belonged to the older families, Irish, ...

In his Washington office Harry Jacob Anslinger keeps a sinister collection of heroin, opium pipes, and other paraphernalia seized by the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, which he organized in 1930 and has ...

For nine years, Shawn Sinisi had battled a drug addiction he said was rooted in the boyhood trauma of being sexually abused by serial child molester Jerry Sandusky. For his parents, it had been nine ...

Editor's note: This is a content warning. The following package contains extremely graphic descriptions, images and video of drug use and addiction, as well as discussion of sexual assault and suicide ...

The U. S. this week observed the first of the year’s widely noted special sennights —Narcotic Education Week. A very small percentage, so far, of the U. S. population sniff cocaine and heroin, inject ...

His family was in an impossible position. They didn’t want to enable Shawn’s addiction, but they couldn’t stomach writing him off. His mother, Marianne, remembers more than once calling him to see if ...