Ever since Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to having smoked crack cocaine, various city councillors and media observers have publicly advised him to seek drug counselling. But in a CNN interview that ...

Those who work with Ottawa's drug-addicted homeless say they believe crack for sale on the streets is being cut with more dangerous and addictivecrystal meth. Diane Morrison, head of the Ottawa ...

Scott Harman was a crack addict for 17 years. It all began at 13-years-old when he started drinking and then using drugs. By the age of 17, he was addicted. “Within a six month period I was into the ...

The outrageous Rob Ford drama that unfurled last week at Toronto City Hall has turned a spotlight on substance abuse and addiction treatment. After the mayor admitted to smoking crack and driving ...

Three decades ago, Gordon Lownds was living the entrepreneurial dream as a successful co-founder of the burgeoning Sleep Country business. At the same time, his personal life was a nightmare. Divorced ...

Study: Molecular and circuit determinants in the globus pallidus mediating control of cocaine-induced behavioral plasticity. Image Credit: Alex Mit / Shutterstock.com Ventral tegmental area dopamine ...

As Sleep Country Canada was becoming one of the country’s most successful homegrown brands, one of its co-founders was in the fight for his life against crack cocaine addiction. After 26-years sober, ...

A new study published in European Neuropsychopharmacology suggests that semaglutide, a drug already used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, may also help reduce cocaine use, drug-seeking behavior, ...

Hunter Biden’s former girlfriend has testified about his near-constant crack cocaine use at luxury hotels at the criminal trial where prosecutors are trying to prove that US President Joe Biden’s son ...

Brittany Cartwrightspoke out in the wake of her ex Jax Taylorrevealing his cocaine addiction. “I'm glad that he finally ...