Crack

My beautiful, drug-addicted boy My beautiful, drug-addicted boy

David Sheff recounts how he lost his son to meth and the long, agonizing struggle to get him back.
By Katharine Mieszkowski Mar 1, 2008

  • Crackulous Defeats App Protection

    By Darrell Etherington February 2, 2009

  • My boyfriend's a secret crackhead!

    He was sometimes a little unreliable, but I had no idea.
    By Cary Tennis February 19, 2008

  • Mean streets

    Serbian photographer Boogie discusses taking to New York's seedy streets and capturing the true lives of junkies and gangsters.
    By Scott Thill December 7, 2006

  • Didn't she almost have it all?

    Once a megastar, Whitney Houston is now a tabloid "crackhead." But when I looked for someone to blame, I kept finding the diva herself.
    By Rebecca Traister April 12, 2006

  • Is CRACK wack?

    An organization that pays drug-addicted women to get sterilized is increasingly getting referrals from publicly funded agencies. Its supporters say it's saving babies from being born into hellish lives. Its critics say it's practicing "Hitleresque eugenics."
    By Daniel Costello April 8, 2003

  • Who cracked Microsoft?

    Many free-software hackers make no attempt to hide their hatred of Bill Gates -- could they be the culprits?
    By Andrew Leonard October 27, 2000

  • Can needles heal crackheads?

    A groundbreaking study says they can and do, helping acupuncture inch toward Western acceptance.
    By Michael Castleman August 16, 2000

  • The war on drugs

    Prisons, profiling and propaganda: Salon's coverage of the U.S. government crackdown on illegal-substance abuse and the drug trade.
    May 2, 2000

  • Ally McSqueal?

    Nell and Cage: Crack team. Is she experienced? Bonnie Raitt spills all. Plus: The King and I -- Carter and Presley, together again.
    By Amy Reiter January 11, 2000

  • Museum of substance

    From opium-addicted housewives to cocaine cough syrup, the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum traces the history of illegal drugs in America.
    By Ron Dicker September 28, 1999

  • Harvard and heroin

    I coasted to an Ivy League degree as a drug addict, but forever damaged the bond between mother and son.
    By Seth Mnookin August 27, 1999

  • My son, the junkie

    I finally had to let him save, or kill, himself.
    By Wendy Mnookin August 27, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    The finer points of erotic dance class; did Nixon policies help drug addicts?
    Letters to the Editor May 18, 1999

  • Cracking down

    Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again.
    By Jeff Stryker July 10, 1998

  • Cracking down

    Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again.
    By Jeff Stryker June 30, 1998

  • Newsreal: Hell no, we won't throw away the key

    Serious civil disobedience against the nation's drug sentencing laws are being staged, not by pot-smoking hippies and wild-eyed libertarians, but by prosecutors and senior judges, one of them a Reagan appointee.
    By Bruce Shapiro March 31, 1998

  • Media Circus

    The San Jose Mercury News' CIA-crack story: Anatomy of a journalistic train wreck.
    By Thomas Hackett May 30, 1997

  • Waiting to Exhale: A crack high for the female psyche

    plus "Getting clear on copyrights"
    By Joan Walsh December 30, 1995

  • Heart of Darkness

    Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois went deeper into America's crack culture than anyone before him. Too deep.
    By Gary Kamiya December 2, 1995
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