WRAL anchor/reporter Dan Haggerty has written the piece below as part of his “In Depth with Dan” segment that airs on WRAL News at 7 p.m. Last week on WRAL Evening News, I anchored a segment about ...

My stupid ass was, f— it,” Suge said. He took a hit, and his girlfriend’s prediction was accurate. “That’s when I went there [to hard drugs].” ...

Like Mayor Rob Ford, most crack users today are employed, white men. Nov. 7, 2013— -- Cheap, easy to produce and packing a euphoric high, crack cocaine experienced a dizzying period of popularity ...

One of the most confounding legacies of the crack epidemic is that everyone has heard of crack — we all think we know what we need to know — but few of us actually understand it. That’s not an ...

The subject of addiction swirls with myths and misinformation. It doesn’t help that so many people seem to believe that their own struggle with addiction — or a few drop-ins to Alcoholics Anonymous ...

On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of ...

Plentiful research and anecdotal evidence has suggested that cannabis could be a useful harm reduction tool to help folks wean off of other substances that are more addictive and harmful. While many ...

Neighborhoods in northeast Paris have struggled for years with the scourge of crack cocaine and its use in public. The Summer Olympics, kicking off a year from Wednesday, are offering an impetus to ...