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 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 ...

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 former drug addict who served time in prison, Langford-raised Geri Bemister now lectures in criminology at Vancouver Island University and North Island College.Jason Payne Late one night in June ...

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 ...

I’d be dead if I hadn’t gone to prison. I met the most amazing people in prison staff, and I benefited hugely from the ...

In recent years, traffickers have developed strains of coca bush that can thrive in the lower-altitude, warmer and more humid ...

A 16-year-old crack cocaine addict says he is desperate to turn his life around after carrying out a series of thefts. In the space of just a couple of weeks the boy, who cannot be named because of ...

‘Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine but ... am I an addict? No’: One-time Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford - Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images It is a feature of modern life that many of the world’s ...