Attorney General Merrick Garland issued new guidance on Friday essentially eliminating the disparity in federal sentencing for the distribution of crack cocaine versus powder cocaine, a policy that ...

Ian Hamilton is affiliated with Alcohol Research UK. Harry Sumnall receives and has received funding from grant awarding bodies for drug and alcohol research. He is an unpaid member of the Advisory ...

There was applause this week when President Obama signed legislation cutting the federal penalties for possession of crack cocaine. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 is an overdue correction of a ...

CHICAGOThe "crack babies" scare of the 1980s may have been overblown, a new study suggests. A new review published May 27 in Pediatrics finds little proof of any major long-term ill effects in ...