City Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Ashwin Vasan announced new vending machines that will distribute free items like crack pipes and Narcan to addicts. Gregory P. Mango New York averages eight ...

LOS ANGELES — Are you a junkie in Skid Row who just got a bag of crack or fentanyl, but have no pipe to smoke it in? Don’t worry: local nonprofit organizations will hand you a brand-new crack pipe ...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday denied that taxpayer dollars are being used to fund safe-smoking kits that include crack pipes. "No federal funding has gone to it," Psaki said during ...

Conservatives expressed outrage over a program to reduce the risks of using illegal drugs but got some facts wrong, Press Secretary Jen Psaki says The Biden administration says it is not spending ...

Soon after our story was posted Friday, KPIX 5 received a flurry of phone calls and emails from city officials denouncing the idea to distribute the crack pipes. Mayor Ed Lee was first with a ...

The Los Angeles County government is handing out free pipes for smoking crack, methamphetamine and opioids as a part of its effort to reduce drug overdoses, according to a report. The pipes are being ...

Crack started rocking America in the 1980s. The form of cocaine, which provides a brief, intense high, peaked in popularity by the end of that decade, but big cities are still struggling with the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Despite opposition from San Francisco officials, a program to provide free crack pipes to drug users has now distributed some 200 pipes since it began in March. When news of ...