Some addicts and the executive director of the Union Mission have joined the chorus of those criticizing a city program to hand out free crack-cocaine kits in an attempt to reduce the spread of ...

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 ...

A MUM who grew up as a typical middle-class girl has revealed how boozing at 14 sent her life on a different trajectory. Olivia Taylor first began boozing at 14 in the park with friends, but her ...

The City of Ottawa started handing out new kits to drug users on Friday including glass tubes that can be used with crack pipes. It's hoped this will discourage the sharing of makeshift pipes among ...

OK, we admit it. Handing free crack-pipe pieces to addicts was one of those topics we knew a lot of Province readers would be foaming at the mouth about. So it’s not surprising that much of the ...

Crack addicts in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have started receiving free crack pipes as part of a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority harm reduction strategy aimed at curbing the spread of disease ...

Since 2003, Vancouver has been the only city in North America where drug addicts can shoot heroin into their veins at an officially sanctioned injection site. Now some of the same voices that lobbied ...

For many years Kathy Middleton was picked up by police for crime. Nowadays she’s taken to the police station for a much different reason: to deliver motivational speeches. Middleton, 56, said she used ...

A crack addict who would callously rob the sick and elderly was sentenced Thursday to 30 days of house arrest for his latest crime. Ramzy Jaber, 29, was caught in October 2012 with 2.4 grams of crack ...

A drug addict convicted in the second-degree murder of a crack dealer has been sentenced to life in prison. Superior Court Justice James Turnbull sentenced Douglas Jackson to life with no chance of ...