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 ...

The war is probably the best thing that ever happened to U.S. drug addicts. By shutting off the sources, chiefly Asiatic, of smuggled dope (morphine, heroin, opium and derivatives), the war in Asia ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...